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counter-salient

counter-salient is the alternative spelling of countersalient.

Meaning of countersalient

Adjective

countersalient (not comparable)

  1. Leaping in opposite directions (as if past or away from each other); said of two figures on a coat of arms.

Questions about counter-salient

What is counter-salient the alternative spelling of?
Counter-salient is the alternative spelling of countersalient.

Words near counter-salient in the dictionary

  1. counter-revolutions
  2. counter-roll
  3. counter-rolls
  4. counter-rotation
  5. counter-rotations
  6. counter-salient
  7. counter-sectarian
  8. counter-shed
  9. counter-sheds
  10. counter-space
  11. counter-stereotypical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counter-salient (page history and authors); countersalient (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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