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.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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mayflower (ˈmeɪˌflaʊə)

—n
1.	any of various plants that bloom in May
2.	(US), (Canadian) another name for trailing arbutus
3.	(Brit) hawthorn cowslip another name for marsh marigold

Mayflower (ˈmeɪˌflaʊə)

—n
	the Mayflower the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620

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Mayflower definition

The ship that carried the Pilgrims to America. It made a permanent landing near Plymouth Rock in 1620, after the Pilgrims had agreed to the Mayflower Compact.

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