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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fortified boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, one of two distinct tracts of the lateral root of the olfactory lobe of the brain, distinguished as limes alba and limes cinerca.
  • noun In zoology, a boundary; a line of division or separation between two parts or organs.

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  • noun Plural form of lime.
  • noun A boundary.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin līmes, līmit-.]

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Inflected forms.

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From Latin limes.

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