Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The group of all progeny derived from the same artificially produced hybrid.
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- noun A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
- noun A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When Remington came out with heavi-shot turkey loads the shells I bought would leak grex from the crimp area.
Bad Shells 2008
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Gregory is said of grex, which is to say a flock; and of gore, which is to say a preacher.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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"grex," a merger of thousands of slime molds working together to search and find food.
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For as the [496] Princes are, so are the people; Qualis Rex, talis grex: and which [497] Antigonus right well said of old, qui Macedonia regem erudit, omnes etiam subditos erudit, he that teacheth the king of Macedon, teacheth all his subjects, is a true saying still.
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Similarly, the Venerable Bede says in a homily: 'Pastores sunt omnes, sed grex unus ostenditur qui ab apostolis omnibnus tunc unianima consensione pascebatur.'
Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution' 2006
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Similarly, the Venerable Bede says in a homily: 'Pastores sunt omnes, sed grex unus ostenditur qui ab apostolis omnibnus tunc unianima consensione pascebatur.'
Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution' - Archbishop 2006
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Among other items of interest beside the taxonomic classification, Polygeminus grex how original, were the presence of spiracles, a single gonad, and a uterus.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS Dean Wesley Smith 1998
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Among other items of interest beside the taxonomic classification, Polygeminus grex how original, were the presence of spiracles, a single gonad, and a uterus.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS Dean Wesley Smith 1998
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Finitus vero est annus ipse, et venerunt ad eum anno secundo, et dixerunt ei, Non abscondemus a domino meo, quod integra pecunia, et grex jumentorum apud dominum meum: non remansit coram domino meo praeterquam corpus nostrum, et terra nostra.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Refer also to the confirming document of Anno Domini 3749, Quo peregrinatur grex, pastor secure, authorizing the purchase of an island, uh-certain vehicles.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
biocon commented on the word grex
In addition, grex means A clump of myxamœbæ formed during a phase of the life cycle of cellular slime moulds, the Acrasina or Acrasiomycetes (OED).
April 27, 2012