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cardo

cardo noun: the basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

Noun

cardo (plural cardines)

  1. The basal joint of the maxilla in insects
  2. The hinge of a bivalve shell.
  3. (Ancient-Rome) A street that ran north–south, in an Ancient Roman town or city

cardo meaning in Tamil

cardo in Tamil

அணுவடி, கார்டோ

Forms of cardo

pluralcardines

Origin of cardo

Borrowed from Latin cardō (“hinge”). Doublet of kern.

Questions about cardo

What does cardo mean?
Cardo means the basal joint of the maxilla in insects.
What is cardo in Tamil?
Cardo in Tamil is அணுவடி, கார்டோ. See Cardo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cardo?
Cardo is a noun.
What is the plural of cardo?
The plural of cardo is cardines.

Words near cardo in the dictionary

  1. cardmaker
  2. cardmakers
  3. cardmaking
  4. cardmember
  5. cardmembers
  6. cardo
  7. cardol
  8. cardon
  9. Cardonald
  10. cardoncillo
  11. cardoncillos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cardo (page history and authors); cardo (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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