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putamina

[pyoo-tey-min]

pu·ta·men

[pyoo-tey-min]
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; < Latin putāmen, equivalent to putā(re) to prune, clean + -men resultative suffix

pu·tam·i·nous [pyoo-tam-uh-nuhs] , adjective
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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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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