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grizzly(2)(dictionary)
grizzly(3)(dictionary)
grizzly(4)(dictionary)
grizzly bear(encyclopedia)
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Grizzly's Lodge(tourism)

visceral (iou) and grizzly(3) (iou)


visceral (iou)



visceral adjective. L16.
[In sense 1 from Old French, or medieval Latin visceralis in same sense. In senses 2-5 from VISCERA + -AL1.]
Affecting the viscera regarded as the seat of emotion; pertaining to or reaching deep-seated instinctive feelings. L16.
A. Cross Whoever did it hated him for reasons far more visceral than the usual academic disagreements. J. C. Oates Feeling that stab of visceral horror.
Medicine. Of disorders or diseases: affecting the viscera. L18.
Anatomy. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of the viscera; situated in or among, or covering, the viscera. E19.
Pertaining to the viscera of animals used as a means of divination. rare. M19.
Special collocations: visceral arch Zoology one of a set of parallel ridges in the region of the mouth in a fish's skull, or in the embryonic skull of a higher vertebrate. visceral brain (now rare) those parts of the brain which mediate bodily activity, esp. visceral activity, in response to emotion. visceral cavity that part of an animal body in which the viscera are contained. visceral cleft Zoology one of the intervals between the visceral arches. visceral hump Zoology a dorsal enlargement containing the viscera in snails and Other shelled gastropods. visceral layer Anatomy the innermost layer of a serous membrane covering an organ or lining a cavity. visceral pleura: see PLEURA noun1 1.
? Sense 1 obsolete after 17: revived M20.
viscerally adverb M17.

grizzly(3) (iou)



grizzly noun1. E19.
[from GRIZZLY adjective1.]
A grizzly bear.