Thalamus: Definition and part of speech

Thalamus

  1. n. The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
  2. n. A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; — called also optic thalamus.
  3. n. Same as Thallus.

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.

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