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petrobolos

petrobolos noun: a kind of catapult of Ancient Greece, used for hurling stones.

Noun

petrobolos (plural petroboloi)

  1. (historical) A kind of catapult of Ancient Greece, used for hurling stones.

Forms of petrobolos

pluralpetroboloi

Origin of petrobolos

Ancient Greek

Questions about petrobolos

What does petrobolos mean?
Petrobolos means a kind of catapult of Ancient Greece, used for hurling stones.
What part of speech is petrobolos?
Petrobolos is a noun.
What is the plural of petrobolos?
The plural of petrobolos is petroboloi.

Words near petrobolos in the dictionary

  1. petro-dictatorship
  2. petro-dictatorships
  3. petrobactin
  4. petrobasilar
  5. petroboloi
  6. petrobolos
  7. Petrobrusian
  8. Petrobrusianism
  9. Petrobrusians
  10. petrocalcic
  11. petrocapitalism

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