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Dec 16, 2010

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Words made with combining forms

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exogamy
ventifact
tautology
leptorrhine
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with Anu Garg

leptorrhine

PRONUNCIATION:

(LEP-tuh-ryn)

MEANING:

adjective: Having a long narrow nose.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek lepto- (thin) + rhin (nose). Also see rhinorrhea (a runny nose). First recorded use: 1880.

USAGE:

"Like a horny sightless woman on a blind date, she begins to knead her heavy friendship-ring-laden fingers into my face. 'Leptorrhine nose ... kumquat-headed ...'"
Paul Beatty; Slumberland; Bloomsbury; 2008.

See more usage examples of leptorrhine in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. -William Proxmire, US senator, reformer (1915-2005)

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