ani
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Origin of ani
1820–30; < Spanish or Portuguese < Tupi or Guarani
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And people with pruritus ani, the technical term for itchy anus, are often cautioned to avoid toilet paper, leading them to bidets.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
Another 41 percent suffered tears to their levator ani muscle, which forms the majority of the pelvic floor and is situated on either side of the pelvis.
From US News ● Aug. 4, 2016
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From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2014
The pelvic diaphragm, consisting of two paired muscles, the coccygeus and the levator ani, forms the pelvic floor at the inferior end of the trunk.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
If ther be ani kynd of garment lately foũd out, as daili ye tailers craft, as in time paste dyd Africa, bringeth forth some new mõster, yt we put vpon our infãt.
From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard
Come May 18, the Seal will be available in black, ivory, bright green, fuchsia and anis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
Proportions: grande absinthe 250 grams; petite absinthe 50 gm.; hysope 100 gm.; citronelle 100 gm.; anis vert 500 gm.; badian 100 gm.; fenouil 200 gm.; and coriandre 100 gm.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The team, while standing on the banks of the Rio Grande, had sighted groove-billed anis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Fork-tailed flycatchers swept by scores round the vortex of insects, while a fluttering host of kiskadees, tanagers, anis, thrushes, and wrens gleaned as best they could from grass-top or branch.
From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William
Let see, quoth he, now wha begins: With that the foul Seven Deadly Sins Begoud to leap at anis.
From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
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