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calvus
[ kal-vuhs ]
adjective
, Meteorology.
- (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having its upper portion changing from a rounded, cumuliform shape to a diffuse, whitish, cirriform mass with vertical striations.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calvus1
< New Latin, Latin: literally, bald
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Example Sentences
If justice is wounded because Florus keeps afloat in the shipwreck where Varius and Calvus perish, it is justice which is wrong.
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Go to meet him, learned Catullus, 630 with thy Calvus, having thy youthful temples bound with ivy.
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The letter refers to correspondence with Calvus, and criticizes his oratory.
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Troglodytes calvus, a species or variety of chimpanzee, is bald-headed.
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Anthropopithecus calvus, Flower & Lydekker, Mammals, p. 736 .
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