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four-poster(medicine)
four-poster bed(dictionary)
poster(encyclopedia)
poster(dictionary)
poster(2)(dictionary)
poster(1)(dictionary)
poster(dictionary)
poster child(dictionary)
poster paint(dictionary)

poster(2) (iou) and monkflower (medicine)


poster(2) (iou)



poster noun2. M19.
[from POST verb1 + -ER1.]
A person who puts up notices, a billposter. M19.
A printed or written notice posted or displayed in a public place as an announcement or advertisement. Now also, a large printed picture (which may or may not be an advertisement) suitable for decorative display on a wall. M19.
E. Longford Posters..announcing..a public meeting. M. Gardiner A vintage year for London Underground posters.
b. (A presentation at) a poster session (see below). L20.
Computing. A person who sends a message to a newsgroup. L20.
Comb.: poster boy N. Amer. (a) a male poster child; (b) a male model who appears in a print advertisement; poster child N. Amer. a child who appears on a poster in an advertisement for a charitable organization; transf. a person who epitomizes or represents a specified quality, cause, etc.; poster colour an opaque paint with a water-soluble binder, such as is used on posters; poster girl N. Amer. (a) a female poster child; (b) a female model who appears in a print advertisement; poster paint = poster colour above; poster paper: of a kind used for posters; poster session a meeting of scientists etc. at which their work is displayed pictorially.
posterish adjective (esp. of a painting) characteristic or suggestive of a poster or posters M20.
posterist noun a designer of posters E20.
posteri'zation noun (Photography) the process of posterizing a photograph M20.
posterize verb trans. (Photography) print (a photograph) using only a small number of different tones M20.

monkflower (medicine)


monkflower
<botany> A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc).

Source: Websters Dictionary