miliary
Americanadjective
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resembling millet seeds.
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Pathology. accompanied by papules or vesicles resembling millet seeds.
miliary fever.
adjective
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resembling or relating to millet seeds
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(of a disease or skin eruption) characterized by small lesions resembling millet seeds
miliary tuberculosis
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of miliary
1675–85; < Latin miliārius of millet, equivalent to mili ( um ) millet + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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Japan has been accelerating its miliary buildup as it stresses the need to fortify its deterrence against growing threats.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
And a senior Ukrainian military official said like the Russian miliary, Ukraine had lost some of its best officers and soldiers in the first months of the conflict.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
House Speaker Paul Ryan noted the ramped-up spending for the miliary that his GOP members sought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2018
“We’ve done them before and we’ll do them again,” Capt. Jeff Davis, a U.S. miliary spokesman, said of the task force operation, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2017
In the latter case, however, the putrid animals were rats and mice, and the eruption, instead of having a diffused or miliary appearance, partook largely of the character of the common boil.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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