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caducean

caducean adjective: of or relating to the caduceus, Mercury's wand, and symbol of medicine.

Adjective

caducean (comparative more caducean, superlative most caducean)

  1. Of or relating to the caduceus, Mercury's wand, and symbol of medicine.
    • The scene was unchanged; and even in winter the soul of beauty hovered over it, ready again to reanimate the corpse, when the caducean wand of spring should touch it.1997, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Stuart Curran, Valperga, Or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, page 413
    • He loved "Simplicissimus" as his nom de main—often simplified to S-s or simply s, which he called The Snake, the savior of woman: his caducean sign of a mental health and guilelessness somewhat inconsonant with his equally sincere claim to be "the Hermes of good news who teaches knowledge of good...2015, Jonathan Bayliss, Gloucesterbook

Forms of caducean

comparativemore caducean
superlativemost caducean

Questions about caducean

What does caducean mean?
Caducean means of or relating to the caduceus, Mercury's wand, and symbol of medicine.
What part of speech is caducean?
Caducean is an adjective.

Words near caducean in the dictionary

  1. Cadrus
  2. cads
  3. Caduang Tete
  4. caducary
  5. caduce
  6. caducean
  7. caducei
  8. caduces
  9. caduceus
  10. caduciary
  11. caducibranch

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