metridium

[mi-trid-ee-uhm]

me·trid·i·um

[mi-trid-ee-uhm]
noun
any sea anemone of the genus Metridium, common in cooler waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

Origin:
< Neo-Latin (1815), noun use of neuter of metridius having a womb, fruitful < Greek mētrídios, derivative of mḗtra womb
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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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