Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the townships of ancient Attica.
- noun Ecology A local, usually stable population of interbreeding organisms of the same species.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A subdivision of ancient Attica and of modern Greece; a township.
- noun In zoology:
- noun The tertiary or higher individual resulting from the aggregate integration of merides (see
meris ); a zoöid. - noun Any undifferentiated aggregate of plastids or monads. See extract.
- An obsolete (Middle English) form of
deem .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.
- noun (Biol.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. - noun ecology A distinct local
population ofplants oranimals .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
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To force this possibility, in the event that the officer had suggested to you a payment on site, you would say something like: Por favor, deme el papelito para que se puede pagarlo en la oficina.
whichbe commented on the word deme
(ecology) A distinct local population of plants or animals.
September 3, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word deme
demonymic: bearing a name derived from the deme, or township, to which one (who was an inhabitant of ancient Attica) belonged.
June 23, 2020