regma
[ reg-muh ]
/ ˈrɛg mə /
noun, plural reg·ma·ta [reg-muh-tuh] /ˈrɛg mə tə/. Botany.
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
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How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text!
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In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.
Origin of regma
1830–40; < New Latin < Greek rhêgma fracture, break, equivalent to rhēg(nýnai) to break, shatter + -ma noun suffix of result
Words nearby regma
registry office, regius, regius professor, regle, reglet, regma, regmaker, regnal, regnant, regnat populus, rego
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