Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ule-tree.
- noun A diminutive termination in many words from the Latin, as in capsule, glandule, globule, nodule, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A Mexican and Central American tree (
Castilloa elastica andCastilloa Markhamiana ) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called alsoule tree .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Mexican andCentral American tree (Castilloa elastica and C. markhamiana), related to thebreadfruit tree, whose milky juice containscaoutchouc .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If Mr. Schockenhoff thinks that the Siegessäule is such a bad monument, why did the German government not remove it entirely long ago? — wolfie
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The Siegessäule is one of Berlin’s most recognizable landmarks, a monument to Prussian war victories that now acts as a gathering place during public events like the parade on Berlin’s gay pride day, known as Christopher Street Day.
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The Siegessäule is one of Berlin’s most recognizable landmarks, a monument to Prussian war victories that now acts as a gathering place during public events like the parade on Berlin’s gay pride day, known as Christopher Street Day.
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The vast majority of old world pronunciations are endearing, such as SHED-ule instead of SKED-ule.
David Cameron and Barack Obama: a picture of chumminess 2010
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They say he was in a fight with Ashley A.J. J.ule outside a strip club in Atlanta.
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February 21, 2008 at 9:19 am kool. ule geit bettr @ itz. juzt kep it up
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Milon du-leshoni etimologi le-`Arvit meduberet ule-`Ivrit Bilingual etymological dictionary of spoken Israeli Arabic and Hebrew.
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I never was really curious about how to spell this word before, and I am shocked that it's actually "Litfasssaeule", which seems to break several German orthography rules, especially since "Litfasssaeule" gets 5,130 Google hits and "Litfasssäule" gets one.
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The scholar answered, My worshipful lord, my genie is not apt nate to that which this flagitious nebulon saith, to excoriate the cut (ic) ule of our vernacular Gallic, but vice-versally I gnave opere, and by veles and rames enite to locupletate it with the Latinicome redundance.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The scholar answered, My worshipful lord, my genie is not apt nate to that which this flagitious nebulon saith, to excoriate the cut (ic) ule of our vernacular Gallic, but vice-versally I gnave opere, and by veles and rames enite to locupletate it with the Latinicome redundance.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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