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amphora

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A large, two-handled vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.
  2. noun A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 80 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 26 L although differing slightly over time.
  3. noun A Roman unit of ship capacity, similar to tonnage.
  4. noun A lower valve of a fruit that opens transversely.

Similar words

vase lagena pelike oenochoe pithos alabastron lachrymatory aryballo alabastrum aryballus

Often followed by

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Word family

amphorae amphoras

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