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caducei

caducei is the plural of caduceus.

Meaning of caduceus

Noun

caduceus (plural caducei)

  1. The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.
    • Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With which he wonts the Stygian realmes inuade […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    golden wand
  2. A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly substituted for the rod of Asclepius as a symbol of medicine.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:caduceus.

Questions about caducei

What is caducei the plural of?
Caducei is the plural of caduceus.

Words near caducei in the dictionary

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

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