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pilums

pilums is the plural of pilum.

Meaning of pilum

Noun

pilum (plural pila or pilums)

  1. (historical) A Roman military javelin.
    • Besides a lighter spear, the Roman legionary grasped in his right hand the formidable pilum, a ponderous javelin whose utmost length was about six feet and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of about eighteen inches.1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin 2000, page 21
  2. The columella on the surface of a pollen grain.

Questions about pilums

What is pilums the plural of?
Pilums is the plural of pilum.

Words near pilums in the dictionary

  1. pilulous
  2. pilum
  3. pilumnid
  4. pilumnids
  5. Pilumnus
  6. pilums
  7. pilung
  8. pilungs
  9. pilus
  10. pily
  11. PIM

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