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helioses

helioses is the plural of heliosis.

Meaning of heliosis

Noun

heliosis (usually uncountable, plural helioses)

  1. (usually) Sunstroke.
  2. (usually) Sunburn.
  3. (usually) Exposure to the sun.
  4. (usually) Scorching of plants by the sun.
  5. (historical, usually) A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks.
    • The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219

Questions about helioses

What is helioses the plural of?
Helioses is the plural of heliosis.

Words near helioses in the dictionary

  1. helioseismological
  2. helioseismologically
  3. helioseismologist
  4. helioseismologists
  5. helioseismology
  6. helioses
  7. heliosheath
  8. heliosheaths
  9. heliosis
  10. heliospectrograph
  11. heliosphere

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