BREVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breve mean? 

• BREVE (noun)
  The noun BREVE has 1 sense:

1. a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound

  Familiarity information: BREVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("breve" is a kind of...):

diacritic; diacritical mark (a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation)

 Context examples 

At 6 weeks after birth, in breastfed babies, Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis was by far the most abundant bacterium overall as well as being the most abundant member of the Bifidobacterium genus, followed distantly by Bifidobacterium breve and Bifidobacterium biifdum.

(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)