Kendall

[ ken-dl ]

noun
  1. Edward Calvin, 1886–1972, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.

  2. a male given name.

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How to use Kendall in a sentence

  • Some homœopathic physicians, Drs. Small, Kendall and others have used it with gratifying results.

    The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick Laidlaw
  • I want you to have three months at the Kendall School, and then do you know what I am going to do?

    Quin | Alice Hegan Rice
  • He declared Kendall innocent a few minutes before they were launched into eternity.

  • "We have had some secret societies on board this ship," laughed Paul Kendall, after he had received his decoration.

    Down the Rhine | Oliver Optic
  • "I shall join that order," said Commodore Kendall, as he placed himself in the single line formed by the boys.

    Down the Rhine | Oliver Optic

British Dictionary definitions for Kendall

Kendall

/ (ˈkɛndəl) /


noun
  1. Edward Calvin. 1886–1972, US biochemist, who isolated the hormone thyroxine (1916). He shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1950) with Phillip Hench and Tadeus Reichstein for their work on hormones

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