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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noun
A word or phrase that forms a different word or phrase when its letters are reversed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A word or phrase in which a small portion is palindromic, while the rest is not.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A sequence of DNA that can be superimposed with its reverse complement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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History
From the prefix "semi-" meaning "half" and "palindrome," indicating a partial or variant form of a palindrome.
