noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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General-American:/lɪmˈfoʊ.mə/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -əʊmə
CMU ARPABET:L IH0 M F OW1 M AH0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 1
A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, oncology, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 2
a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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