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plethora (iou) and dissogony (iou)


plethora (iou)



plethora noun. M16.
[Late Latin from Greek plethore fullness, repletion, from plethein be full.]
Medicine & Biology. Orig., a condition characterized by excess of blood or of a bodily humour (or of juices in a plant). Later, an excess of red cells in the blood. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
Overfullness, oversupply; an excess, a glut. (Foll. by of.) E18.
N. F. Dixon With a plethora of spies there are not enough secrets to go round.

dissogony (iou)



dissogony noun. L19.
[from Greek dissos twofold + -GONY.]
Zoology. = DISSOGENY.