thirty-eight

[thur-tee-eyt]

thir·ty-eight

[thur-tee-eyt]
noun
1.
a cardinal number, 30 plus 8.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 38 or XXXVIII.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
4.
amounting to 38 in number.
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Thirty-eight is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
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.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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thirty-eight

adjective
being eight more than thirty 
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