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merlins

merlins is the plural of merlin.

Meaning of merlin

Noun (1)

merlin (plural merlins)

  1. A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia.
    • The gentle falcon, that with its feet distraineth / The kingës hand; the hardy sperhawke eke, / The quailës foe; the merlion that paineth / Himself full oft the larkë for to seek; [...][c. 1381–1382, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules; republished as “The Assembly of Fowls”, in D[avid] Laing Purves, editor, The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and...
    Synonyms:
    pigeon hawk

Noun (2)

merlin (uncountable)

  1. A cytoskeletal protein active in the suppression of tumors.
    Synonyms:
    schwannomin

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Proper noun capitalized: Merlins

Merlins

  1. (plural) plural of Merlin

Questions about merlins

What is merlins the plural of?
Merlins is the plural of merlin.
What part of speech is merlins?
Merlins is a proper noun.

Words near merlins in the dictionary

  1. Merlinian
  2. Merlinic
  3. Merlino
  4. merlinoite
  5. Merlinos
  6. merlins
  7. merlion
  8. merlions
  9. Merlo
  10. merlon
  11. merlons

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