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evidential (iou) and Pentastoma (medicine)


evidential (iou)



evidential adjective. E17.
[medieval Latin evidentialis, from Latin evidentia: see EVIDENCE noun, -AL1.]
Resting on documentary evidence. rare. Only in E17.
Of the Nature of or providing evidence; serving to attest. M17.
F. W. Farrar That Paul should have passed..from one direction of life to the very opposite is evidential of the power and significance of Christianity. Times The court had their written answer which had evidential value.
Of, pertaining to, or based on evidence. M17.
E. B. Tylor The basis of theological science must be historical as well as evidential.
evidentially adverb M17.

Pentastoma (medicine)


Pentastoma


Older name for a genus of Pentastomida, now called Linguatula. The species described as Pentastoma denticulatum proved to be the larva of Linguatula rhinaria, sometimes parasitic in the nose of humans and Other mammals; adults are found in the lungs of reptiles.

Origin: penta-+ G. Stoma, mouth