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plethora


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plethora  \Pleth"o*ra\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ?,  fr  ?  to  be  or  become 
  full.  Cf  {Pleonasm}.] 
  1.  Overfullness;  especially,  excessive  fullness  of  the  blood 
  vessels;  repletion;  that  state  of  the  blood  vessels  or  of 
  the  system  when  the  blood  exceeds  a  healthy  standard  in 
  quantity;  hyper[ae]mia;  --  opposed  to  an[ae]mia. 
 
  2.  State  of  being  overfull;  excess;  superabundance. 
 
  He  labors  under  a  plethora  of  wit  and  imagination. 
  --Jeffrey. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plethora 
  n  :  extreme  excess;  "an  embarrassment  of  riches"  [syn:  {nimiety}, 
  {overplus},  {superfluity},  {embarrassment}] 




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