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1.
grōs
adj.
40 quotations in 4 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) Large;
gros glot (spiking)
, a kind of large nail or spike; (b)
anat.
of bodily parts, organs, structures: large, thick.
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hūmiditẹ̄
n.
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(a) Moistness, dampness; (b)
anat.
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med.
the primary quality of moistness.
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mọ̄n(e
n.(1)
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mone
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(a) The moon as a luminous heavenly body; the seventh 'planet' of Ptolemaic astronomy, the planet of the sphere nearest the earth; (b) the moon as the cosmological divider between the earth and the…
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