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cnemids

cnemids is the plural of cnemid.

Meaning of cnemid

Noun

cnemid (plural cnemids)

  1. A greave: a bronze shin protector worn in combat by Ancient Greek warriors.
    • But at times it had been thought that they could have been variations on the cnemid, the bronze shin-protector worn by Greek warriors in combat.1979, Jacques Briard, translated by Mary Turton, The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe: From the Megaliths to the Celts, Routledge, page 106

Questions about cnemids

What is cnemids the plural of?
Cnemids is the plural of cnemid.

Words near cnemids in the dictionary

  1. cnemial
  2. cnemid
  3. cnemid-
  4. cnemides
  5. cnemido-
  6. cnemids
  7. cnemis
  8. cNeoblast
  9. cNeoblasts
  10. cnephasiine
  11. CNF

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