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pu⋅ta⋅men

  [pyoo-tey-min]
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–noun, plural -tam⋅i⋅na  [-tam-uh-nuh] .
1. Botany. a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.
2. a shell membrane.
Origin:
1820–30; < L putāmen, equiv. to putā(re) to prune, clean + -men resultative suffix

Related forms:
pu⋅tam⋅i⋅nous  [pyoo-tam-uh-nuhs] , adjective
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pu·ta·men   (pyōō-tā'mən)   
n.   pl. pu·tam·i·na (-tām'ə-nə)
A hard, shell-like covering, such as that enclosing the kernel of a peach.

[Latin putāmen, that which falls off in pruning, shell, husk, from putāre, to prune; see pau-2 in Indo-European roots.]
pu·tam'i·nous (-tām'ə-nəs) adj.
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Main Entry: pu·ta·men
Pronunciation: pyü-'tA-m&n
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural pu·tam·i·na /-'tam-&-n&/
: an outer reddish layer of gray matter in the lentiform nucleus —pu·tam·i·nous /-'tam-&-n&s/ adjective
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putamen pu·ta·men (py&oomacr;-tā'mən)
n.
The outer, larger, and darker gray of the three portions into which the lentiform nucleus of the brain is divided.

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