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daedalia

daedalia noun: miscellaneous items of an especially complex, intricate, ingenious (etc.) nature.

Noun

daedalia pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Miscellaneous items of an especially complex, intricate, ingenious (etc.) nature
    • A curious collection of devices, mechanisms, and other daedalia.
    • "As another example, machines are epic, but automatons belong to romance. In Book V, Talus is a romance marvel, like all such daedalia; but in the allegory he has some of the functions and significance of an epic siege-engine."1976, James Nohrnberg, The Analogy of The Faerie Queene, Princeton University Press, page 23

Origin of daedalia

Back-formation from Daedalian.

Questions about daedalia

What does daedalia mean?
Daedalia means miscellaneous items of an especially complex, intricate, ingenious (etc.) nature.
What part of speech is daedalia?
Daedalia is a noun.

Words near daedalia in the dictionary

  1. daedal
  2. daedala
  3. Daedalean
  4. daedaleoid
  5. daedaleous
  6. daedalia
  7. Daedalian
  8. Daedalic
  9. Daedalidae
  10. daedally
  11. daedaloid

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