Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The inhabitants of the polar circles: so called because in their summer-time their shadows describe an oval.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The inhabitants of the
polar regions (whose shadows, during part of the summer, make a complete revolution).
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This year, eighth-grader Sukanya Roy spelled "periscii" and "cymotrichous" to take the title not even my Microsoft Word spell check recognizes those words, becoming the fourth American of Indian descent to win the bee in a row, and the ninth to win it in the past 13 years.
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This year, eighth-grader Sukanya Roy spelled "periscii" and "cymotrichous" to take the title not even my Microsoft Word spell check recognizes those words, becoming the fourth American of Indian descent to win the bee in a row, and the ninth to win it in the past 13 years.
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