GU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does GU mean? 

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

1. the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898

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

• GU (adjective)
  The adjective GU has 1 sense:

1. of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions

  Familiarity information: GU used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

GU; Guam

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("GU" is a part of...):

Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas (a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521)

• GU (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

genitourinary; GU

Context example:

genitourinary infections

 Context examples 

Could conceivably occur as part of a spectrum of GU developmental abnormality (e.g., 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in humans).

(Non-proliferative Developmental Conditions of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)