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pannicles

pannicles is the plural of pannicle.

Meaning of pannicle

Noun

pannicle (plural pannicles)

  1. A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
  2. (obsolete) A pannus.
  3. (obsolete, rare) The skull.
    • To him he turned, and with rigour fell / Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, / That to the chin he cleft his head in twaine [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about pannicles

What is pannicles the plural of?
Pannicles is the plural of pannicle.

Words near pannicles in the dictionary

  1. pannican
  2. pannicans
  3. pannick
  4. pannicks
  5. pannicle
  6. pannicles
  7. pannicular
  8. panniculectomies
  9. panniculectomy
  10. panniculi
  11. panniculitides

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