Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of cæcum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural See cæcum.

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  • noun Plural form of caecum.

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Examples

  • The Levant mole, an animal known from Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and the adjacent part of the Caucasus, was mostly regarded as a subspecies of the Mediterranean mole T. caeca, until a revision of 1993, and the Iberian mole was similarly widely regarded as a Mediterranean mole subspecies until 1993.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The Levant mole, an animal known from Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and the adjacent part of the Caucasus, was mostly regarded as a subspecies of the Mediterranean mole T. caeca, until a revision of 1993, and the Iberian mole was similarly widely regarded as a Mediterranean mole subspecies until 1993.

    The first new European mammal in 100 years? You must be joking Darren Naish 2006

  • Nemo enim tam caeca mente, qui non hoc ipsum videat: nemo tam stolido ingenio, qui non intelligat; tam pertinaci judicio, qui non agnoscat, ab his idiotis circumforaneis, sacram pollui Theologiam, ac caelestes Musas quasi prophanum quiddam prostitui.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quae caeca vi ac specifica qualitate morbos futuros arcent. lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Fortuna est caeca, the inscription on my Miracle Stage, means "Fortune is Blind" but when Enjah asked about it, I realized what an unfortunate phrase it is in scatalogical English.

    A time for work, a time for play Young Geoffrion 2007

  • A bulbous pharynx ingests food into a short esophagus that divides into two blind intestinal caeca that extend posteriorly along the length of the body.

    Platyhelminthes 2007

  • Fortuna est caeca, the inscription on my Miracle Stage, means "Fortune is Blind" but when Enjah asked about it, I realized what an unfortunate phrase it is in scatalogical English.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • Some of the little birds also have these appendages; but the caeca in their case are exceedingly minute, as in the sparrow.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • An exceptional property in fishes and in birds for the most part is the being furnished with gut-appendages or caeca.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • The gut-appendages or caeca in birds, as has been observed, are few in number, and are not situated high up, as in fishes, but low down towards the extremity of the gut.

    The History of Animals 2002

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