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circumadjacent

circumadjacent adjective: lying immediately around.

Adjective

circumadjacent (comparative more circumadjacent, superlative most circumadjacent)

  1. Lying immediately around
    • The pain and heat, by degrees derive a vast flux of blood and humors which distend all the circumadjacent vessels, in order to quench the incendium.1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 15

Forms of circumadjacent

comparativemore circumadjacent
superlativemost circumadjacent

Origin of circumadjacent

From circum- + adjacent.

Questions about circumadjacent

What does circumadjacent mean?
Circumadjacent means lying immediately around.
What part of speech is circumadjacent?
Circumadjacent is an adjective.

Words near circumadjacent in the dictionary

  1. circum-Caribbean
  2. circum-Jovian
  3. circum-Martian
  4. circumabdominal
  5. circumacetabular
  6. circumadjacent
  7. circumagitate
  8. circumagitated
  9. circumagitates
  10. circumagitating
  11. circumambages

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