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gut⋅ta

  [guht-uh]
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–noun, plural gut⋅tae  [guht-ee] .
1. a drop, or something resembling one.
2. Also called drop. Architecture. one of a series of pendent ornaments, generally in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the undersides of the mutules of the Doric entablature.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME goute, gutta < L gutta a drop
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gut·ta   (gŭt'ə)   
n.   pl. gut·tae (gŭt'ē')

  1. Architecture One of a series of small ornaments in the shape of truncated cones used on a Doric entablature.

  2. Abbr. gt. Pharmacology A drop, as of liquid medicine.


[Middle English, from Latin, drop.]
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gutta gut·ta (gŭt'ə)
n. pl. gut·tae (gŭt'ē')
Abbr. gt
A drop, as of liquid medicine.

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