manyplies
- (functioning as singular) another name for psalterium
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Word Origin
C18: from the large number of plies or folds of its membrane
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These are called the paunch, the honeycomb stomach or bag, the manyplies and the abomasum.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural HistoryTheodore Wood