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isthmuses

isthmuses is the plural of isthmus.

Meaning of isthmus

Noun

isthmus (plural isthmuses or isthmi)

  1. A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.
  2. Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.
  3. An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.

Questions about isthmuses

What is isthmuses the plural of?
Isthmuses is the plural of isthmus.

Words near isthmuses in the dictionary

  1. Isthmus of Suez
  2. Isthmus Zapotec
  3. Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
  4. isthmusectomies
  5. isthmusectomy
  6. isthmuses
  7. isths.
  8. istid
  9. istighfar
  10. istighfars
  11. istikhaara

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