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vuln

/vʌln/

vuln verb: of a pelican, to wound (oneself) by biting at the breast. Also the clipping of vulnerability.

vuln: of a pelican, to wound (oneself) by biting at the breast
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Verb

vuln (third-person singular simple present vulns, present participle vulning, simple past and past participle vulned)

  1. Of a pelican, to wound (oneself) by biting at the breast.
    • The shield depicts a pelican vulning herself.
    • Of many other literary references to the pelican briefest mention can be now made . The variant relations of the piety of the bird are very interesting : according to one set of legends , it is to feed its young that the pelican vulns[…]1903, The Pelican Record, page 197

Also used as

vuln is also the clipping of vulnerability.

Forms of vuln

Verb
third-person singular presentvulns
present participlevulning
past participlevulned
pastvulned
Noun
pluralvulns

Origin of vuln

Irregularly derived from Latin vulnerāre.

Questions about vuln

What does vuln mean?
Vuln means of a pelican, to wound (oneself) by biting at the breast.
What part of speech is vuln?
Vuln is a verb.
How do you pronounce vuln?
Vuln is pronounced /vʌln/.
What is the past tense of vuln?
The past tense of vuln is vulned.

Words near vuln in the dictionary

  1. vulgaxanthin
  2. vulgaxanthins
  3. vulgo
  4. vulgus
  5. vulguses
  6. vuln
  7. vulnary
  8. vulned
  9. vulnera
  10. vulnerabilities
  11. vulnerability

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