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lacunous

lacunous is the alternative form of lacunose.

Meaning of lacunose

Adjective

lacunose (comparative more lacunose, superlative most lacunose)

  1. Full of gaps or lacunae.
    • Thus the translation attempts to render the lacunose text as accurately as possible.1995, Iain Gardner, “Comments on the Translation”, in The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary, E.J. Brill, page xxxvii
  2. Having large, deep depressions; pitted; having the surface covered with small cavities.

Forms of lacunous

comparativemore lacunous
superlativemost lacunous

Questions about lacunous

What is lacunous the alternative form of?
Lacunous is the alternative form of lacunose.

Words near lacunous in the dictionary

  1. lacunin
  2. lacuno-rugose
  3. lacunocanalicular
  4. lacunose
  5. lacunosity
  6. lacunous
  7. lacunule
  8. lacunules
  9. lacunulose
  10. lacunæ
  11. lacustral

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