mediae

Noun (1)

media (plural medias or mediae)

1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2. (dated) A voiced stop consonant.

   Antonyms:

   tenuis

3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.

   Synonyms:

   M

4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
5. (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

   Synonyms:

   cuarto

Noun (2)

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

1. (often treated as uncountable) The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
   • As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.

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