c. l. morgan
gən noun
2.
Daniel, 1736–1802, American Revolutionary general.
3.
Sir Henry, 1635?–88, Welsh buccaneer in the Americas.
4.
John Hunt, 1826–64, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
6.
his son, John Pierpont, 1867–1943, U.S. financier.
7.
Julia, 1872–1957, U.S. architect.
8.
Lewis Henry, 1818–81, U.S. ethnologist and anthropologist.
9.
Thomas Hunt, 1866–1945, U.S. zoologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1933.
10.
a male or female given name.
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C. l. morgan
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. 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 extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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Morgan1 (ˈmɔːɡən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| an American breed of small compact saddle horse | |
| [C19: named after Justin Morgan (1747--98), American owner of the original sire] | |
| Morgan2 (ˈmɔːɡən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Edwin (George). born 1920, Scottish poet, noted esp for his collection The Second Life (1968) and his many concrete and visual poems; appointed Scottish national poet 2004 |
| 2. | Sir Henry. 1635--88, Welsh buccaneer, who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English |
| 3. | John Pierpont. 1837--1913, US financier, philanthropist, and art collector |
| 4. | (Hywel) Rhodri (ˈrɒdrɪ). born 1939, Welsh Labour politician; first minister of Wales from 2000 |
| 5. | Thomas Hunt. 1866--1945, US biologist. He formulated the chromosome theory of heredity. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1933 |
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Word Origin & History
Morgan
type of horses, 1843, named for Justin Morgan (1747-98), Amer. teacher; the breed was developed in New England from a stallion he owned.
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Medical Dictionary
morgan mor·gan (môr'gən)
n.
Abbr. M A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome based on the frequency with which the genes cross over; one unit equals a theoretical crossover value of 100 percent between two loci.
Morgan Mor·gan (môr'gən), Thomas Hunt. 1866-1945.
American biologist. He won a 1933 Nobel Prize for establishing the chromosome theory of heredity by his studies of the fruit fly Drosophila.
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Science Dictionary
Morgan  (môr'gən) Pronunciation Key
American zoologist whose experiments with fruit flies demonstrated that hereditary traits are carried by genes on chromosomes and that traits can cross over from one chromosome to another. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1933. |
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