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vulnera

vulnera is the plural of vulnus.

Meaning of vulnus

Noun

vulnus (plural vulnera)

  1. (formal) A wound.
    • I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

Questions about vulnera

What is vulnera the plural of?
Vulnera is the plural of vulnus.

Words near vulnera in the dictionary

  1. vulgus
  2. vulguses
  3. vuln
  4. vulnary
  5. vulned
  6. vulnera
  7. vulnerabilities
  8. vulnerability
  9. vulnerability index
  10. vulnerability indexes
  11. vulnerability indices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vulnera (page history and authors); vulnus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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