Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like a wedge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wedge-like.
Wiktionary
- adj. sciences, archaic Shaped like a wedge.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek σφήν (sphēn, "wedge"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A composite number with three distinct prime factors is a sphenic number.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sphenic’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
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Logolepsy
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jeffreytwhitney's list
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temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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