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isthmus |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Isthmus \Isth"mus\ (?; 277), n.; pl {Isthmuses}. [L. isthmus, Gr 'isqmo`s a neck, a neck of land between two seas, an isthmus, especially the Isthmus of Corinth; prob. from the root of 'ie`nai to go cf Icel. ei[eth] isthmus. See {Issue}.] (Geog.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc {Isthmus of the fauces}. (Anat.) See {Fauces}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: isthmus n : a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas
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