| hystero- or (before a vowel) hyster- | |
| —combining form | |
| 1. | indicating the uterus: hysterotomy |
| 2. | hysteria: hysterogenic |
| [from Greek hustera womb] | |
| hyster- or (before a vowel) hyster- | |
| —combining form | |
| [from Greek hustera womb] | |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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. |