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heritrixes

heritrixes is the plural of heritrix.

Meaning of heritrix

Noun

heritrix (plural heritrices or heritrixes)

  1. A female heritor.
    • They got also Lufnes by marieng the heritrix theirof Riccartoun.[…]The Lairds of Glenbervie are not the oldest Douglasses as some say, but a cadet of Angus maried the heritrix theirof, they being then Melvils verie old in that name, and the powerfullest in all the Mearnes.[…]He was a cadet of...1665–1676, Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda, 1665-1676, published 1900, pages 203, 208, and 211
    Synonyms:
    heiress, heritress

Questions about heritrixes

What is heritrixes the plural of?
Heritrixes is the plural of heritrix.

Words near heritrixes in the dictionary

  1. heritours
  2. heritress
  3. heritresses
  4. heritrices
  5. heritrix
  6. heritrixes
  7. herkara
  8. herkaras
  9. herkie
  10. herkies
  11. Herkimer

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