Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Belonging to the Ludlow group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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name
An epoch from 422.9 ± 2.5 to 418.7 ± 2.7 million years ago, a subdivision of the Silurian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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History
Etymology tree English Ludlow English -v- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Ludlovian From Ludlow + -v- + -ian.
