premorse

Definitions


[], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- Especially of a root: having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 18th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Cyclopaedia. From classical Latin praemorsus, past participle of praemordēre to bite at the extremity, to bite from the end from prae- + mordēre to bite




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