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variance - Etymology dictionary

03.11.2020 β€” mid 14c., fact of undergoing change, from O.Fr. variance, from L. variantia, from variare to change (see VARY (Cf. vary)). Meaning state of disagreement is ...
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swamp - Etymology dictionary

10.10.2020 β€” 1624 (first used by Capt. John Smith, in reference to Virginia), perhaps a dialectal survival from an O.E. cognate of O.N. svoppr sponge, fungus, from P.Gmc.
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Knickerbocker - Etymology dictionary

28.10.2020 β€” descendant of Dutch settlers of New York, 1831, from Diedrich Knickerbocker, the name under which Washington Irving published his popular History of New ...
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organomegaly - Medical dictionary

04.08.2020 β€” SYN: visceromegaly. * * * orΒ·gaΒ·noΒ·megΒ·aΒ·ly .Θ―r gΙ™ nō meg Ι™ lΔ“ n, pl lies abnormal enlargement of the viscera called also splanchnomegaly, visceromegaly ...
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hypodermic needle - Medical dictionary

11.06.2020 β€” n 1) NEEDLE (2) 2) a hypodermic syringe complete with needle * * * a short, slender, hollow needle used in injecting drugs beneath the skin.