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Dens
is always a great word to know.
So is nematoda. Does it mean:
| pertaining to creatures without a backbone |
| phylum of worms comprised of parasitic and free-living nonparasitic species |
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noun
1.
the lair or shelter of a wild animal, especially a predatory mammal.
2.
a room, often secluded, in a house or apartment, designed to provide a quiet, comfortable, and informal atmosphere for conversation, reading, writing, etc.
3.
a cave used as a place of shelter or concealment.
4.
a squalid or vile abode or place: dens of misery.
5.
one of the units of a cub scout pack, analogous to a patrol in the Boy Scouts.
verb (used with object)
6.
to drive or pursue (an animal) into its den.
7.
to kill (an animal) inside its den.
verb (used without object)
8.
to live in or as if in a den.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English denn; compare early Dutch denne floor, cave, den, German Tenne floor
before 1000; Middle English; Old English denn; compare early Dutch denne floor, cave, den, German Tenne floor
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den
O.E. denn "wild animal's lair," from P.Gmc. *danjan. Sense of "small room" is 1771, originally colloquial.
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Medical Dictionary
dens (děnz)
n. pl. den·tes (děn'tēz')
Tooth.
A toothlike process projecting upward from the body of the axis around which the atlas rotates. Also called odontoid process of epistropheus.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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