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Chorology: Definition and part of speech

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Chorology

  1. n. The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth’s surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Choriambus: Definition and part of speech

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Choriambus

  1. n. A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chorion: Definition and part of speech

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Chorion

  1. n. The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
  2. n. The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
  3. n. The true skin, or cutis.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.