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-alis

-alis

a suffix occurring in scientific names from Latin: borealis.

Origin:
< Latin -ālis; see -al1
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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