peto

[pey-toh]

noun

plural

petos ,

plural

peto .

1. wahoo.

Word History and Origins

Origin of peto¹

First recorded in 1955–60; from Latin American Spanish (Cuba); Spanish: “breastplate,” from Italian petto “breast, breastplate,” from Latin pectus “breast”

Example Sentences

"We are excited about plans to renew our hub infrastructure in the UK," said Rob Peto, FedEx's vice president of operations.

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Today, Bengal's crude bombs are known locally as peto.

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This hypothesis starts with "Peto's paradox," Vollrath told Live Science.

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In the 1970s, an epidemiologist named Richard Peto described a puzzling phenomenon: Large animals, despite having many more cells that could potentially turn into cancerous cells, don't seem to have a higher risk of developing cancer than smaller animals.

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Scientists call it Peto's paradox: cancer is caused by gene mutations that accumulate in cells over time, yet long-lived animals that have lots of cells, such as elephants and whales, hardly ever get it.

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