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CONGERIES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does congeries mean?
• CONGERIES (noun)
The noun CONGERIES has 1 sense:
1. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
Familiarity information: CONGERIES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
aggregate; congeries; conglomeration
Hypernyms ("congeries" is a kind of...):
sum; sum total; summation (the final aggregate)
Meronyms (members of "congeries"):
plankton (the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water)
nekton (the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales)
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