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accipitrine(dictionary)

basket (oh) and accipitrine (medicine)


basket (oh)




[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old North French baskot, from Latin bascauda 'bowl for washing dishes']
a container made of thin pieces of plastic, wire, or wood woven together, used to carry things or put things in
::a shopping basket
::a basket full of Vegetables
::a picnic basket
clothes/laundry basket
(=for dirty clothes)
a net with a hole at the bottom attached to a metal ring, through which the ball is thrown in Basketball
make/shoot a basket
(=to throw the ball through the basket)
technical the average or total value of a number of different goods or currencies
-see also put all your eggs in one basket at egg 1 (6), wastepaper basket

accipitrine (medicine)


accipitrine
<zoology> Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

Origin: Cf. F. Accipitrin.

Source: Websters Dictionary