cores

Noun

core (countable and uncountable, plural cores)

1. The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
   • the core of an apple or quince
2. The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
   • Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal...2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98
3. The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
4. The center or inner part of a space or area.
   • the core of the square1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5)
5. The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
   • the core of a subject
   1. The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.

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