Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of monocotyledonous plants, of the order Dioscoreaceæ.

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  • noun a genus of tuberous vines of the family Dioscoreaceae; has twining stems and heart-shaped leaves and axillary racemes

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Examples

  • It is not surprising that locally-made products are rarely seen on the shelves of pharmacies and local entrepreneurs resorting to selling their products in expositions, street fairs or tamus

    Daily Express Newspaper Online 2009

  • It is not surprising that locally-made products are rarely seen on the shelves of pharmacies and local entrepreneurs resorting to selling their products in expositions, street fairs or tamus

    Daily Express Newspaper Online 2009

  • Connect remote desktop proprietress, vitalizing nutritiveness, blackleg pluteaceae trinket, senescent hydrochloride asynergy web, gruesomely gestural as tamus xm, murre schorl web.

    Rational Review 2009

  • Sanguis advenit ad vifcidum, oleofijm, acrem humorem fuppeditandum idoneus (e), plenus nempe oleo, vapore abdominali, inteftinorum putrido habitu, ut iienis ignoratam haclenus utilitatem praztermit - tamus.

    Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776

  • AtQue Animam credit permiftam Corpore toto Sulcipere huiic motum, quem Senfum nomitii - tamus:

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

  • Dc Senfibus fenlibus uiurpavit, de mortuis etiam cogi - tamus, V. 27.

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

  • "Most of our business activities are limited only to stalls carried out in sidewalks and tamus.

    Daily Express Newspaper Online 2010

  • "Most of our business activities are limited only to stalls carried out in sidewalks and tamus.

    Daily Express Newspaper Online 2010

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