eponymist
Eponymist
E*pon"y*mist\, n. One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.
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Eponymist
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
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| 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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