grex
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of grex
From the expression gram per x (ten)
Example Sentences
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Experimental Farm Network lists a turnip grex and golden beet grex, originally from Alan Kapuler, and another called Homesteader’s Kaleidoscopic Perennial Kale, bred by Chris Homanics.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
Naturally we shall hardly consider under this head the speech of the whole grex, or the "Nunc plaudite" of an actor that closes a number of the plays.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké
That's what I need yet, you should grex from the start with your backache.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
I regret to see that M. Lanson, the latest historian of French literature, has not dared to separate himself from the academic grex.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
Davenant's earliest assailants were of his own political party, followers of the exiled Charles, the men whom Milton describes as "perditissimus ille peregrinantium aulieorum grex."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
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