termes

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Definition

From the translingual Termes (genus name), from Late Latin termes, late variant of Classical Latin tarmes (“woodworm”).

Companion! tis the Guise, but yet those termes might have beene spar'd of the guiserd. — Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, George Chapman
“Hire facounde eke full womanly and plain, No contrefeted termes had she To semen wise.” —CHAUCER. — Middlemarch, George Eliot
Right in his churlish termes will I speak, I pray to God his necke might to-break. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer

genus Termes

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