cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
continually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuəli/
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjəli/
Forms: form: more continually
form: most continually
Etymology: From continual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Guatemalan snowpea production has continually been harmed by insect and disease infestations.
ref: 2007, George W. Norton, E. A. Heinrichs, Gregory C. Luther, Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Process, page 87:
glosses: In regular or repeated succession; very often.
glosses: In a continuous manner; non-stop.
Synonyms: sense: in regular or repeated succession
word: time and again
word: little by little
word: momently
word: at every turn
word: gradually
word: sequentially
sense: in a continuous manner
word: ceaselessly
word: incessantly
word: nonstop
word: continuously
Derived terms: itinually
consequently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnsɪˌkwɛntli/
ipa: /ˈkɑːnsɪˌkwɛntli/
ipa: /ˈkɑːnsəˌkwɛntli/
Etymology: From Middle English consequentely, consequentliche, consequently; equivalent to consequent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He didn't wake up early. Consequently, he was late to work.
text: He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
ref: 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548
text: While algebraical reasoning is most frequently analytical, arithmetical reasoning is generally synthetical, and, consequently, more difficult to understand.
ref: 1904, Carlo Bourlet, translated by Harold Bolingbroke Mudie, The Esperantist, volume 1, number 8, page 116:
glosses: As a result or consequence of something; subsequently.
glosses: subsequently, following after in time or sequence.
seriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪəɹi.əsli/
note: in rapid speech
ipa: /ˈsɪəɹ.əsli/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹi.əsli/
ipa: /ˈsiɹi.əsli/
Forms: form: more seriously
form: most seriously
Etymology: From Middle English seriously, sereously, ceryously, seryowslech (“earnestly”), equivalent to serious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was hoping that we would take him seriously.
text: Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.
text: “I’ll qualify the statement, then,” she answered, with a laugh. “We have known each other for two ages—hers and mine. But seriously we are as dear to each other as sisters, and now that I am going to lose her I am almost heartbroken.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 101:
text: Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.
ref: 2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in The New York Times:
text: Jeremy, meanwhile, was the fun-lover, like me, who didn't always take it too seriously.
ref: 2015, Christopher Biggins, Biggins - My Story:
topics: manner
glosses: In a serious or literal manner.
examples: text: That was a seriously unpleasant thing to say.
glosses: Gravely; deeply; very much.
examples: text: Now, seriously, why did you forget to feed the cat today?
synonyms: no really
no kidding
real talk
glosses: Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation.
examples: text: You baked ten (10) cakes. Seriously, why did you do that?
synonyms: no really
no kidding
glosses: Used to call back to a previous point, in disbelief or for emphasis.
examples: text: Unless you're seriously strapped (armed), you're about to be not okay too.
glosses: In an extreme or major way; majorly.
Derived terms: word: but seriously folks
word: sinseriously
word: srsly
word: take seriously
Ouija
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈwiːd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -iːdʒə
rhymes: -iːdʒi
Forms: form: Ouijas
form: ouija
Etymology: The popular belief that the word came from French oui (“yes”) + German ja (“yes”) is a misconception. The name is taken from a word spelled out on the board when it was asked to name itself by Helen Peters, sister-in-law of Kennard Company investor Elijah Bond. It is noted in personal letters that Ouija was the name of a woman in a painting above her head at the time, who it is speculated may have in fact been Ouida.
Senses: synonyms: Ouija board
spirit board
talking board
glosses: A board, having letters of the alphabet and the words yes and no; used with a planchette during a seance to "communicate" with spirits.
examples: text: Soon after the departure of my brother to the better land, our spirit-band informed us very plainly through "Ouija," that it was our duty to remove to Boston in order that our children might have better educational facilities, and be admitted to the "musical swim" of the "Hub of the Universe."
ref: 1903, James Henry Foss, The Gentleman from Everywhere:
glosses: The use of such a board to attempt to communicate with spirits.
Related terms: ideomotor effect
Ouija board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːd͡ʒə bɔɹd/
Forms: form: Ouija boards
form: ouija board
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tabletop model of the individual aircraft and their locations on a carrier.
examples: text: These, then, are the usual means by which we receive psychic messages, though table tilting, ouija boards, glasses upon a smooth surface, or anything which can be moved by the vital animal-magnetic force already discussed will equally serve the purpose.
ref: 1919, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Vital Message:
text: Ouija board / Would you work for me? / I have got to say "Hello" / To an old friend
ref: 1990, Morrissey, “Ouija Board, Ouija Board”, in Bona Drag:
text: Archie forces himself across the floor to see what the Ouija board is spelling out.
ref: 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 139:
text: She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, “like how Ouija boards work,” she said.
ref: 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of Ouija (“a board used to try to communicate with spirits”).
synonyms: word: Ouija
extra: a board used to try to communicate with spirits
steadily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: stĕdʹĭli
ipa: /ˈstɛdɪli/
Forms: form: more steadily
form: most steadily
Etymology: From steady + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo Railway at Hønefoss diverges.
ref: 1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 219:
text: She lisped slightly, little-girlish, looking at him still while drinking whisky steadily from a full glass.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 281:
text: It grew steadily colder and presently a mushroomy sort of smell came up from the darkness.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 18:
glosses: In a steady manner; with a steady progression.
distinctly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɪŋktli/
Forms: form: more distinctly
form: most distinctly
Etymology: From distinct + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I distinctly remember the voice of my deceased grandmother.
text: About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
ref: 1880 [1610 March 13], Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, “The Astronomical Messenger”, in Edward Stafford Carlos, transl., The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries: A Translation with Introduction and Notes, London: Rivingtons, translation of Sidereus Nuncius: […] , →OCLC, page 10:
text: Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!:
text: "Aloud," he said distinctly, "the Seven Words are spoken thus. Melenkurion abatha. Duroc minas mill. Harad khabaal."
ref: 2007, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: In a distinct manner.
hastily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪstɪli/
Forms: form: more hastily
form: most hastily
Etymology: From hasty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
ref: 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:
text: Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:
glosses: In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.
examples: text: she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Soon, shortly.
Derived terms: overhastily
eagerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiɡɚli/
ipa: /ˈiːɡəli/
Forms: form: more eagerly
form: most eagerly
Etymology: From Middle English egerly; equivalent to eager + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Heidi had been listening eagerly, with shining eyes.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 103:
glosses: In an eager manner.
Synonyms: heartily
with a will
Related terms: eagerness
lightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
Forms: form: lightlier
form: more lightly
form: lightliest
form: most lightly
form: lighty
Etymology: From Middle English lyghtly, liȝtliche, lihtliche, from Old English lēohtlīċe, equivalent to light + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As a teacher, I don't take rudeness in class lightly.
text: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a light manner.
Derived terms: get off lightly
lightliness
once-over-lightly
overlightly
take lightly
tread lightly
tread-lightly
undoubtedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdaʊtɪdli/
Forms: form: more undoubtedly
form: most undoubtedly
Etymology: From Middle English undoutedly, equivalent to undoubted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
ref: 1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
text: “It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.
ref: 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN:
glosses: Without doubt; definitely.
Synonyms: indubitably
unquestionably
doubtlessly
undoubtably
without a doubt
indirectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndɪˈɹɛktli/
ipa: /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛktli/
Forms: form: more indirectly
form: most indirectly
Etymology: From Middle English inderectely, indirectly, equivalent to indirect + -ly or in- + directly.
Senses: examples: text: His alcoholism had a direct effect on his health, and indirectly caused problems for others.
text: At laſt a new Ceſſation of Hoſtilities upon theſe Points was reſolved on; yet the Hatred continues, and the War goes on, though more covertly, and more indirectly than before.
ref: 1699, Gilbert, Bishop of Sarum [i.e., Gilbert Burnet], “Article XVII. Predestination and Election.”, in An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. […], London: […] R[obert] Roberts, for Ri[chard] Chiswell, […], →OCLC, page 151:
text: For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 205:
glosses: In an indirect manner.
Synonyms: undirectly
comparatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪvli/
ipa: /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪvli/
Forms: form: more comparatively
form: most comparatively
Etymology: From comparative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And yet I suppose that my life has been, comparatively speaking, a happy one.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
ref: 1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "'Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253:
glosses: In a comparative manner.
examples: text: Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground[.]
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: When compared to other entities.
gratefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪtfəli/
Forms: form: more gratefully
form: most gratefully
Etymology: From grateful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
 ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: In a grateful manner.
justly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒʌstli/
Forms: form: justlier
form: more justly
form: justliest
form: most justly
Etymology: From just + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His valor, wisdom, and justice made him justly popular, but caused him to be regarded with suspicion at Rome.
ref: 1890, Robert Franklin Pennell, History of Rome:
text: Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.
ref: 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460:
glosses: In a just or fair manner; rightfully.
examples: text: But the city on the River Clyde can justly claim to have turned the tide.
ref: 2012, Jay Newton-Small, ‘Gangless in Glasgow’, Time, 1 Oct 2011
glosses: With a just or fair use of language; with good reason, properly.
examples: text: It is a pleasant imagination to conceive a spirit iustly ballanced betweene two equall desires.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: With great precision; accurately, exactly.
deadly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdli/
rhymes: -ɛdli
Forms: form: more deadly
form: most deadly
Etymology: From Middle English dedly, dedlych, dedlich, from Old English dēadlīċ (adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *dauþalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dauþalīkaz (“deadly”, literally “deathly”). By surface analysis, dead + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian dodelk (“deadly”), West Frisian deadlik (“deadly”), Dutch dodelijk (“deadly”), German tödlich (“deadly”), Swedish dödlig (“deadly, fatal, mortal”), Icelandic dauðlegur (“mortal”).
The adverb is from Middle English dedliche, from Old English dēadlīċe (adverb), from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: [P]erceiving himſelfe deadly wounded by a ſhot received in his body, being by his men perſwaded to come off and retire himſelfe from out the throng, anſwered, he would not now ſo neere his end, beginne to turne his face from his enemie[…]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Our affections are tranſported beyond our ſelues”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Fatally, mortally.
examples: text: Her face suddenly became deadly white.
glosses: In a way which suggests death.
examples: text: Though deadly weary, till ſpectators do / At once part and call them good boys too[…]
ref: 1669, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, “Tryphon, A Tragedy”, in Two New Tragedies: The Black Prince, and Tryphon […] , page iv:
text: John had got an impreſſion that Lewis was ſo deadly cunning a man, that he was afraid to venture himſelf alone with him.
ref: 1750 [1712], John Arbuthnot, “The Hiſtory of John Bull (chapter XVIII)”, in The Hiſtory of John Bull and Poems on ſeveral Occaſions […] , page 113:
glosses: Extremely, incredibly.
Derived terms: fail-deadly
Related terms: dead
namely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪmli/
rhymes: -eɪmli
Etymology: From Middle English namely, nameliche, namelike, equivalent to name + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian nämmelk, West Frisian nammentlik, Dutch namelijk, German Low German nämlich, German nämlich, Danish nemlig, Swedish nämligen, Icelandic nefnilega.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the students — namely Paul, Alice and Jake — seem to have trouble with geometry.
text: There are three ways to do it, namely the right way, the wrong way and the Army way.
text: “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…].
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: Specifically; that is to say.
examples: text: THus was sir Tramtryst longe there wel cherysshed / with the kynge and the quene / and namely with la beale Isoud / So vpon a daye / the quene and la beale Isoud made a bayne for syre Tramtryst / And whan he was in his bayne / the quene and Isoud her doughter romed vp & doune in the chamber
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:
glosses: Especially, above all.
Synonyms: that is to say
to wit
videlicet
scilicet
viz.
sc.
specifically
in other words
namely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪmli/
rhymes: -eɪmli
Forms: form: more namely
form: namelier
form: most namely
form: nameliest
Etymology: From Middle English namely, namly, equivalent to name + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] and certainly there was no namelier king in Scotland for building churches and developing the communities of the land into free towns or burghs.
ref: 1915, Thomas Ratcliffe Barnett, The Makers of the Kirk, page 93:
glosses: Notable, distinguished; famous, renowned; well-known.
strangely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒli/
Forms: form: more strangely
form: most strangely
Etymology: From Middle English straungely (“strangely, aloofly, intricately”); equivalent to strange + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Though I'd never gone to Boston before, everything looked strangely familiar.
text: Daniel was walking strangely because he had twisted his ankle.
text: A tale of gangland warfare and filial loyalty in the Glasgow of 1958, Small Faces is an enjoyable but strangely unmoving film.
ref: 1996, Film Review:
glosses: In a strange or coincidental manner.
examples: text: […]all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love, and thou / Hast strangely stood the test[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page 1:
glosses: Surprisingly, wonderfully.
Synonyms: word: oddly
word: uncannily
word: weirdly
word: alienly
word: curiously
word: eccentrically
word: enigmatically
word: peculiarly
word: quaintly
word: queerly
word: singly
word: singularly
word: strangely
word: unconventionally
word: unfamiliarly
Hypernyms: word: unusually
Hyponyms: word: creepily
Derived terms: strangely warmed
Related terms: word: strange
tax-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tax + -free.
Senses: examples: text: If your income qualifies you to contribute to a Roth IRA, you can contribute up to $7,000 this year ($8,000 if you’re at least 50) with after-tax savings. That money will grow untaxed until retirement, at which point your withdrawals will be tax-free and penalty-free after age 59-1/2, assuming the account has been open for at least five years.
ref: 2024 March 15, Jeanne Sahadi, “The average tax refund is over $3,000. Here are 7 ways to put it to good use”, in CNN:
glosses: exempt from taxation
Related terms: tax free
tax haven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax havens
Etymology: Compound of tax + haven.
Senses: examples: text: Such colonies claim to be "more British than the British", except that they pay no UK tax and act as tax havens for funds from Britain. Gibraltar has made a particular specialism of internet gambling.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
economics
government
law
sciences
taxation
glosses: A jurisdiction that levies low tax rates on certain economic activities, especially to attract wealthy individuals and foreign businesses.
Related terms: secrecy jurisdiction
kisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪsɪz/
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of kiss
glosses: plural of kisse
kisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪsɪz/
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kiss
cochlea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒk.li.ə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.kli.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɑk.li.ə/
Forms: form: cochleae
form: cochleas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek κόχλιας (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
glosses: A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.
Derived terms: cochlear
cochleitis
Midi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Midi
Etymology: Borrowed from French Midi (literally “south”).
Senses: examples: text: Some thousands of French Huguenots settled in the South between 1670 and the end of the seventeenth century; but these immigrants included many French of the Midi, so that the newcomers tended to intensify characteristics already developing in the native population under climatic influences.
ref: 1907 June 24, E. N. Vallandigiiam, “Our Men of the Midi”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
text: For sale: 75-acre peach and grape farm in the Midi, France - £595,000. Farmhouse included. […] Not surprisingly, the average age of French farmers has dropped from 55 to 40 during the past 15 years. But even so, the owner of the Midi farm has discovered the hard way that a move across the channel is not without risk.
ref: 2006 October 29, Jill Insley, “French leave that wasn't so fruitful”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2014:
text: Start to haggle and you’ll realise they’re speaking not only French but something earthier. This is Occitan, ancient language of the Midi, the Pyrenees and parts of north-west Italy.
ref: 2024 July 20, Fiona Sampson, “The other Dordogne: exploring France’s unspoiled Périgord region”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2024:
glosses: A cultural region referring to the south of France; approximately corresponding to the regions where Occitan is or was spoken.
midi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: middy
homophone: middie
Senses: examples: text: midi skirt
glosses: Having a hemline at mid-calf length.
midi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: middy
homophone: middie
Forms: form: midis
Senses: examples: text: Vogue recommends mixing midis – ie wearing the midi-boot with the midi-skirt – which is one option (very Marni), as is the current silhouette on the high street.
ref: 2015 August 21, Lauren Cochrane, “The rise of the midi: next season's boot height”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A coat, skirt, or boot having such a hemline.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Synonym of Berliner (“newspaper format”).
synonyms: word: Berliner
extra: newspaper format
Related terms: mini
maxi
maxi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æksi
Forms: form: more maxi
form: most maxi
Etymology: Back-formation from maximum on the analogy of minimum and mini.
Senses: coordinate_terms: mini
midi
glosses: Having a hemline at ankle length.
examples: text: It will be observed that on each of the mini runs there are more hits than on either of the maxi runs.
ref: 1968 ·, Nagpur University Journal: Humanities - Volume 19, page 87:
text: The chance to shelter additional current income for future retirement is what makes the "maxi” plan attractive.
ref: 1979, United & Babson Investment Report - Volume 71, page 196:
text: Liptak identified several trends emerging in the marketing of pay-TV which he identified as the 2½, (rather than "maxi-maxi- mini") phenomenon, the “1½ phenomenon,” (meaning a maxi and mini package), and a possible trend raising the question of whether three maxi's might be successful.
ref: 1980, TVC. - Volume 17, Issues 1-12, page 38:
antonyms: mini
glosses: Being of the largest size in its category of items.
delusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈluːzəɹi/
Forms: form: more delusory
form: most delusory
Senses: glosses: tending to delude
sickle-cell anaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sickle-cell anemia.
infarct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɑɹkt/
Forms: form: infarcts
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnfarctus, tu-stem derivation of īnfarciō.
Senses: examples: text: After RSE treatment for 90 days, there was no comparable fibrosis in noninfarct and infarct regions.
ref: 2015 December 10, “The Long-Term Consumption of Ginseng Extract Reduces the Susceptibility of Intermediate-Aged Hearts to Acute Ischemia Reperfusion Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
Derived terms: infarcted
infarction
infarctive
macroinfarct
microinfarct
multi-infarct
myocardial infarct
noninfarct
periinfarct
postinfarct
Related terms: infarce
pivotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪvɪtəl/
ipa: /ˈpɪvətəl/
ipa: /ˈpɪvɪtəl/
ipa: [ˈpɪvɪɾəl]
ipa: /ˈpɪvətəl/
ipa: [ˈpɪvəɾəl]
Forms: form: more pivotal
form: most pivotal
Etymology: From pivot + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or being a pivot.
examples: text: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
text: "Crucially, HS2 is already playing a pivotal role in helping Britain's post-pandemic economic recovery.
ref: 2021 January 13, “Packham initiates new petition opposing HS2”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 12:
glosses: Being of crucial importance; central, key.
Derived terms: nonpivotal
pivotality
pivotally
pivotalness
pivotal quantity
cilice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cilices
Etymology: From French cilice, from Latin cilicium (“clothing made of goatskin”), from Cilicia where it originates from.
Senses: examples: text: It was deemed meritorious to disfigure the body by neglect and filth, to extenuate it by fasting and watchfulness, to lacerate it with stripes, and to fret the wounds with cilices of horsehair.
ref: 1824, Robert Southey, “View of the Papal System”, in The Book of the Church. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 305–306:
synonyms: hairshirt
sackcloth
glosses: A garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair worn close to the skin used by members of various Christian traditions as a self-imposed means of penance (repentance) and mortification of the flesh.
examples: text: All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.
ref: 2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 18:
glosses: A leather strap studded with metallic barbs that cut into flesh as a constant reminder of Christ's suffering.
raw_tags: in Opus Dei
Derived terms: chain cilice
hairshirt cilice
Related terms: Cilicia
myocardial infarction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myocardial infarctions
form: myocardial infarct
Etymology: From Late Latin infarctus + French myocarde < from Greek ἔμφραγμα (obstacle) του (of) μυοκαρδίου (heart muscle).
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: cardiac infarction
heart attack
glosses: Necrosis of heart muscle caused by an interruption to the supply of blood to the heart, often as a result of coronary thrombosis.
Related terms: angina pectoris
heart failure
heart attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart attacks
Senses: examples: text: Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: myocardial infarction
glosses: An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
examples: text: She'll have a heart attack when she sees that!
glosses: A major fright.
examples: text: My computer had a heart attack when I tried to get it to run that program.
glosses: Death or failure.
Derived terms: heart attack on a plate
Related terms: cardiac arrest
heart failure
coronary thrombosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: coronary
heart attack
glosses: Thrombosis of a coronary artery, that is, a blockage, caused by a blood clot, of the blood flow in a coronary artery of the heart, leading to myocardial infarction.
flex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: flecks
Forms: form: flexes
Etymology: From Latin flexus, past participle of flecto (“to bend”).
Senses: glosses: Flexibility, pliancy.
examples: text: The hills become more rounded. The slopes are either the stooped shoulders of an aging colossus or the muscular flexes of a geologic youngster, but they are pleasant, comforting. This landscape is what most would think of […]
ref: 2002, Gary Noy, Red Dirt: A Journey of Discovery in the Landscape of Imagination, California's Gold Country, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: An act of flexing.
glosses: Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
examples: text: The books lent her by Dr Grimble on period furniture and ceramics interested her deeply, and she studied them at night in the silence of the shop, where she had a flex and a reading lamp installed at her own expense.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 57:
glosses: A flexible insulated electrical cord.
examples: text: Flex is quick and cheaper to install than metallic systems, but it yields higher pressure loss than other types of ducts and requires runs of less than 15 feet, minimal turns and elimination of kinks.
ref: 2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes, page 221:
glosses: Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point of inflection.
examples: text: Getting together with other power players at Masa is the ultimate flex of conspicuous consumption. […] A party of five or more requires a deposit of $200 per person at least one week prior to the reservation.
ref: 2017, "Mogul Bites", Black American Moguls, Fall 2017, page 6
text: It's an achievement to stand out from other Marvel movies in terms of special effects, but this whole movie feels like a flex for those computer wizards.
ref: 2019, Seth Sommerfeld, "Worldwide Web", Inlander, 4 July 2019 - 10 July 2019, page 37
ref: 2020 March 6, Daniel Varghese, “Aesop's Hand Sanitizer Is a Flex for an Anxious Time”, in GQ:
glosses: An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.
Related terms: flex account
flex job
flex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: flecks
Forms: form: flexes
form: flexing
form: flexed
form: flexed
Etymology: From Latin flexus, past participle of flecto (“to bend”).
Senses: qualifier: chiefly physics or biomechanics
glosses: To bend something.
glosses: To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
glosses: To move part of the body using one's muscles.
examples: text: He rubbed his hands together. "Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?" He flexed impressive biceps. "Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?"
ref: 1994, Elise Title, Body Heat, page 189:
glosses: To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
examples: text: I've got billions and billions of rhymes to flex / 'Cause I've got more rhymes than Carl Sagan's got turtlenecks
ref: 2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys:
glosses: To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
examples: text: I shook my head, wondering if I was gonna have to knock Pimp on his ass. "I don't know where," I flexed on him with my height advantage, "you getting all this 'soft' bullshit from, dawg, but you just keep fuckin around. I can show you gangsta better than I can tell you."
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
text: They say it's lonely at the top, but this the best shit ever / Hey, don't you see me out here shinin'? Bitch I'm barely flexin'
ref: 2017, “Kill Jill”, in Boomiverse, performed by Big Boi ft. Killer Mike and Jeezy:
glosses: To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.
Derived terms: anteroflex
dorsiflex
downflex
flexagon
flexer
flexious
flex off
flexography
flex on
flex one's muscles
flex out
flexplate
flextension
flex up
flexwing
flexy
hyperflex
plantarflex
semiflex
unflex
Related terms: flexibility
flexible
flexing
flexion
Arrente
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Arrernte.
trysail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trysails
Senses: examples: text: I have worked like a Trojan all day, and the idea is realized. Margaret helped me out with suggestions, and Tom Spink did the sailorizing. Over our head, from the jiggermast, the steel stays that carry the three jigger-trysails descend high above the break of the poop and across the main deck to the mizzenmast.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small, strong triangular sail sometimes set in place of the mainsail in heavy weather.
ces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ce
bestial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛs.ti.əl/
ipa: /ˈbɛs.t͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ˈbis.t͡ʃəl/
Forms: form: more bestial
form: most bestial
Etymology: From Middle English bestial, from Old French bestial, from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”) (whence English beast).
Senses: examples: text: Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: By thee adulterous lust was driven from men /
Among the bestial herds to range […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 753-4:
text: This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.
ref: 1900 April, Willa Cather, “Eric Hermannson's Soul”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: Ah, if the invincible forest god of that dead past were but with them now. No longer would there be aught to fear from prowling beasts, or from the bestial Russian.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 177:
text: The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
ref: 2022 December 31, Matteo Wong, “Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Beast-like
Synonyms: beastly
animalian
Hypernyms: faunal
Derived terms: bestialism
bestialist
bestiality
bestialization
bestialize
bestialness
unbestial
Related terms: beast
bestiary
bestial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛs.ti.əl/
ipa: /ˈbɛs.t͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ˈbis.t͡ʃəl/
Etymology: From Middle Scots bestiall, from Middle English bestaile, from Old French bestaille, from Late Latin bēstiālia; later reinforced and remodelled on Middle French bestial, itself from Late Latin bēstiālis.
Senses: examples: text: […] much must depend upon the way in which bestial are bought or reared, and the state of the markets when they are sold.
ref: 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, Kincardine, page 94:
glosses: Cattle.
Daugavpils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latvian Daugavpils, from Latvian Daugava + pils (“castle”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Latvia, on the Daugava River.
Kiruna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Lapland, in northern Sweden.
Luleå
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the capital of Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden.
sweetie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːti/
ipa: /ˈswi.ti/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: sweeties
form: sweety
Etymology: From sweet + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: "But... Do you feel better now?" "Much better, sweetie, thank you. Now I get to be a girl everyday."^([sic])
ref: 2022 April 8, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1493 - Everyday:
synonyms: honey
sweetheart
sweetie pie
glosses: A person who is much loved.
glosses: A sweetheart.
synonyms: oroblanco
glosses: A fruit that is a crossbreed between a grapefruit and a pomelo, originating in Israel.
examples: text: Can I have a box of sweeties for being a good boy?
glosses: A sweet; a candy.
The Mall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðə mæl/
ipa: /ðə mɔl/
ipa: /ðə mɑl/
Etymology: From the game pall mall, once played there. The American landmark is named after the avenue in London.
Senses: glosses: A wide avenue in London leading from Trafalgar Square and Admiralty Arch to Buckingham Palace; used as a ceremonial route.
glosses: The National Mall, a national park in downtown Washington DC.
Pall Mall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl ˌmæl/
Forms: form: Pall-Mall
form: Pall-mall
form: Pall mall
Etymology: From pall mall, the name of a game once played there.
Senses: examples: text: Costigan informed Milly, that when she was gone, Major Pendennis told him in his double-faced Pall Mall polite manner, that young Arthur had no fortune at all,
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In Which A Shooting Match Is Proposed”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: A fashionable street in Westminster, leading from Trafalgar Square, via the Haymarket, to St James; it is the home of many select gentlemen's clubs.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States, named after Pall Mall in London.
glosses: A thoroughfare in Bendigo, Victoria.
Pall Mall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl ˌmæl/
Forms: form: Pall Malls
form: Pall-Mall
form: Pall-mall
form: Pall mall
Etymology: From pall mall, the name of a game once played there.
Senses: examples: text: “You did smoke, though.” / “Yes.” / “Pall Malls?” / Thad had been raising his can of soda. It stopped six inches shy of his mouth. “How did you know that?” […] “But not that I smoked Pall Mall cigarettes for fifteen years,” Thad said.
ref: 1989, Stephen King, The Dark Half, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: A cigarette of the British Pall Mall brand.
pall mall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpælˈmæl/
ipa: /ˌpælˈmæl/
other: /ˌpɛlˈmɛl/
rhymes: -æl
homophone: pell-mell stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: pall-mall
form: palle maille
form: paille maille
form: pale maille
Etymology: From Middle French pallemaille, pale-maille, from Italian pallamaglio (“ball-hammer”), from Italian palla (“ball”) and maglio (“hammer”).
Senses: glosses: A 17th-century game in which a ball was driven along an alley and through a hoop using a mallet.
Derived terms: mall
Pall Mall
The Mall
Related terms: The Mall
pell-mell
rennet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛnɪt/
rhymes: -ɛnɪt
Forms: form: rennets
form: runnet
Etymology: From Middle English rennet, from Old English *rynnet, *ġerynnet, from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu (“coagulation, curdling, rennet”), cognate with Old Saxon girunnida (“a running together, coagulation”), Old High German girunnida (“rennet, coagulation”), Middle High German gerinnede (“that which is curdled”).
Compare also Middle English renelesse, renels, renlys, rendlys (“rennet”), Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), Old High German girunst (“rennet”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).
Senses: glosses: An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
Coordinate terms: coagulant
Derived terms: taxonomic: Galium verum
word: cheese rennet
word: nonrennet
word: rennet cheese
word: rennetless
word: rennet stomach
word: rennety
word: rennin
word: vegetable rennet
rennet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛnɪt/
rhymes: -ɛnɪt
Forms: form: rennets
Etymology: Anglicized form of reinette.
Senses: examples: text: The choice of treats is between a sweet mandarin orange and maybe a lumpy rennet apple. Nothing is packaged; there is only food here in this market, most of it requiring washing and chopping and cooking.
ref: 2014, Jeannie Marshall, The Lost Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me about Why Children Need Real Food, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page ?:
synonyms: renneting
glosses: Alternative form of reinette.
schemie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiː.mi/
rhymes: -iːmi
Forms: form: schemies
Etymology: From scheme + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lives in a council house estate or "scheme".
Related terms: ned
embolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛmbələs/
Forms: form: emboli
form: emboluses
Etymology: The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.
examples: text: Those spiders with a simple bulb insert most of this; those with a complex palp insert only the embolus, which in some species is very long […]
ref: 1996, Michael J Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, published 1996, page 22:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.
Derived terms: atheroembolus
embolic
embolism
embolo-
macroembolus
microembolus
thromboembolus
Related terms: embolon
thrombus