diacope

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  1. In grammar, same as tmesis.
  2. [capitalized] [NL.]
  3. 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.
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  1. Late Latin, from Greek διακοπή, a gash, cleft (Middle Greek New Greek interruption, cessation), from διακόπτειν. cut in two, from διά, asunder, + κόπτειν, cut.
 

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