Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excess of flesh
- noun In botany, an excess of sap, giving rise to unnatural or abnormal growth. Thomas, Med. Dict
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- noun medicine Excess
fat ;corpulence - noun botany Excess
sap
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Examples
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Both sexes, even when running to polysarcia, have delicate limbs and extremities, and the features, though negroid, are not the negro of the tobacconist's shop: I noticed several pyramidal and brachycephalic heads, contrary to the rule for African man and simiad.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Both sexes, even when running to polysarcia, have delicate limbs and extremities, and the features, though negroid, are not the negro of the tobacconist’s shop: I noticed several pyramidal and brachycephalic heads, contrary to the rule for African man and simiad.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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