See Also: femal-ize(medicine)

octagon (iou) and femal-ize (medicine)


octagon (iou)



octagon noun & adjective. Also octogon. L16.
[Latin octagonum, octo- noun, octagonos, octo- adjective, from Greek octagonon use as noun of oktagonos eight-cornered, formed as OCTA-, OCTO-: see -GON.]
A. noun. A plane figure with eight straight sides and eight angles; a building or object of octagonal shape or cross-section. L16.
b. adjective. = OCTAGONAL. L17.

femal-ize (medicine)


femal-ize


To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.

Source: Websters Dictionary