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cancrine

American  
[kang-krin] / ˈkæŋ krɪn /

adjective

Prosody.
  1. reading the same backwards as forwards.

    a cancrine line.


Etymology

Origin of cancrine

1745–55; < Latin cancr- (stem of cancer ) cancer + -ine 1

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