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amelic

amelic adjective: born without limbs.

Adjective

amelic (not comparable)

  1. Born without limbs.

Noun

amelic (plural amelics)

  1. A person or animal born without limbs.

Forms of amelic

pluralamelics

Origin of amelic

From a- + Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ic; formed in English as an adjectival counterpart to amelia.

Questions about amelic

What does amelic mean?
Amelic means born without limbs.
What part of speech is amelic?
Amelic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near amelic in the dictionary

  1. Amelia Bedelia
  2. Amelia County
  3. Amelia Courthouse
  4. Amelia Island
  5. amelias
  6. amelic
  7. amelics
  8. ameling
  9. ameliogenesis
  10. ameliorability
  11. ameliorable

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