peto
Americannoun
plural
petos,plural
petoEtymology
Origin of peto
First recorded in 1955–60; from Latin American Spanish (Cuba); Spanish: “breastplate,” from Italian petto “breast, breastplate,” from Latin pectus “breast”
Example Sentences
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"We are excited about plans to renew our hub infrastructure in the UK," said Rob Peto, FedEx's vice president of operations.
From BBC
Today, Bengal's crude bombs are known locally as peto.
From BBC
This hypothesis starts with "Peto's paradox," Vollrath told Live Science.
From Scientific American
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.
From Scientific American
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.
From Scientific American
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