gallus
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of gallus
a variant of gallows used as an adjective, meaning fit for the gallows
Example Sentences
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This animal is part of the Calumma gallus species complex, a group in which males are known for their elongated nasal appendages.
From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2025
The rooster — or “coq” in French — is a emotive national emblem for the French because of the word’s semantics — the Latin gallus meaning Gaul and gallus simultaneously meaning rooster.
From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2023
‘More gallus, less feart,’ as her grandmother would put it.
From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021
They were gallus again in 1967 when facing into a game against the then world champions.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2021
Perched among those branches, I had learned to decline the classical formula: "Hic gallus cantans in arbore sedens, kukuriku dicens!"
From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r
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