Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, out of the center.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Out of the center.
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- adjective botany Out of the centre.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And it was no question of small dwellings for labourers, modest flats for employees, and others of limited means; no, it was a question of colossal mansions three and four storeys high, displaying uniform and endless facades which made these new excentral quarters quite Babylonian, such districts, indeed, as only capitals endowed with intense life, like Paris and London, could contrive to populate.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871
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And it was no question of small dwellings for labourers, modest flats for employees, and others of limited means; no, it was a question of colossal mansions three and four storeys high, displaying uniform and endless facades which made these new excentral quarters quite Babylonian, such districts, indeed, as only capitals endowed with intense life, like Paris and London, could contrive to populate.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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And it was no question of small dwellings for labourers, modest flats for employees, and others of limited means; no, it was a question of colossal mansions three and four storeys high, displaying uniform and endless facades which made these new excentral quarters quite Babylonian, such districts, indeed, as only capitals endowed with intense life, like Paris and London, could contrive to populate.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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