cercis

[sur-sis]

cer·cis

[sur-sis]
noun
any shrub or small tree of the genus Cercis, as the redbud or Judas tree.

Origin:
< Neo-Latin (Linnaeus) < Greek kerkís redbud, literally, weaver's shuttle (perhaps after the shape of the fruit), derivative of kérkos tail
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Cercis is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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.
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cercis (ˈsɜːsɪs)
 
n
any tree or shrub of the leguminous genus Cercis, which includes the redbud and Judas tree
 
[C19: New Latin, from Greek kerkis weaver's shuttle, Judas tree]

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