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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In grammar, same as tmesis.
  2. n. [capitalized]
  3. n. A genus of percoid fishes having the operculum notched and tuberculate. There are several large and beautiful species in the Indian seas, some of them upward of 3 feet long. Cuvier, 1817.
  4. n. [capitalized]
  5. n. A genus of lepidopterous insects.
  6. n. In surgery, a deep wound, particularly of the skull and its integuments; an incision, a fissure, or a longitudinal fracture.

Wiktionary

  1. n. grammar tmesis

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Gram.) Tmesis.

Etymologies

  1. Latin, from Ancient Greek διακοπή (diakopē, "gash, cleft, rupture"), from διά (dia, "through, across") + κοπή (kopē, "cutting") (Wiktionary)

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