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canthi

canthi is the plural of canthus.

Meaning of canthus

Noun

canthus (plural canthi or canthuses)

  1. Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
    • the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Phrases with canthi

Questions about canthi

What is canthi the plural of?
Canthi is the plural of canthus.

Words near canthi in the dictionary

  1. canthectomy
  2. cantheism
  3. cantheist
  4. cantheists
  5. canthellus
  6. canthi
  7. canthic
  8. canthitis
  9. Cantho
  10. cantho-
  11. canthocamptid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canthi (page history and authors); canthus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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