Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or full of lacunæ; furrowed or pitted; marked by gaps, cavities, or depressions; specifically, in botany and entomology, having scattered, irregular, broadish, but shallow excavations, as a surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of gaps or
lacunae .
Etymologies
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From lacuna.
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His name appears in a very lacunose papyrus along with the name of Aristoxenus (Aristoxenus, Fr. 22 Wehrli), but it is pure speculation that Aristoxenus labeled him a Pythagorean; Euryphon the Cnidian doctor of the fifth century, who was not a Pythagorean, also appears in the papyrus.
Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006
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