sub lacunose
noʊs adjective
full of or having lacunae.
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lacuna (ləˈkjuːnə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -nae, -nas | |
| 1. | a gap or space, esp in a book or manuscript |
| 2. | biology a cavity or depression, such as any of the spaces in the matrix of bone |
| 3. | another name for coffer |
| [C17: from Latin lacūna pool, cavity, from lacus lake] | |
| la'cunose | |
| —adj | |
| la'cunal | |
| —adj | |
| la'cunary | |
| —adj | |
| lacunosity | |
| —n | |
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Sub lacunose
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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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