plethora

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a cow's swollen carcass; yet because of carrion taste or food plethora, they let her by.

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  1. noun A superabundance; an excess.
  2. noun An excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area.

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  • Start your solitaire mahjong fun by finding matching mahjong pieces amongst the plethora, and clicking them to get them off the screen. —  VersionTracker: Mac OS X
  • Sorry for the plethora of foul language. plethora is such a pseudo word though … —  WNYMedia
  • They out shopping for a new age Judge Sirica who won't be too easily dismissed as a partisan hack, like the plethora of Clinton and Carter appointees who have made such egregiously bad (and ultimately overturned) hyper political decisions in the last few years. —  A Word to the Wise - A Townhall.com user blog
  • It established a nonprofit social-service arm, People for People Inc., that has received as much as $30 million a year for a plethora of programs that include welfare-to-work, teen abstinence, and mentors for prisoners 'children. —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
  • I like the plethora of tasks available for Ant; however, I often find that the XML syntax of Ant scripts is somewhat onerous to write. —  TheServerSide.com: News
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  1. Late Latin plēthōra, from Greek, from plēthein, to be full; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also plethory; = French pléthore = Spanish plétora = Portuguese plethora = Italian pletora, from New Latin plethōra, from Greek πληθωρ/ν, fullness, in medicine plethora, from πλη̄θος, fullness, from πλήθειν be or become full, from √ πλη in πιμπλάναι fill, πλήρνς, Latin plenus, full: see full, plenty.
 

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/ˈplɛθərə/
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