LARI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lari mean? 

• LARI (noun)
  The noun LARI has 2 senses:

1. the basic unit of money in Georgia

2. gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers

  Familiarity information: LARI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Georgia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

Georgian monetary unit (monetary unit in Georgia)

Meronyms (parts of "lari"):

tetri (100 tetri equal 1 lari in Georgia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Lari; suborder Lari

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Lari"):

family Laridae; Laridae (gull family: gulls and terns)

family Rynchopidae; Rynchopidae (coextensive with the genus Rynchops: skimmers)

family Stercorariidae; Stercorariidae (jaegers and skuas:)

Holonyms ("Lari" is a member of...):

Charadriiformes; order Charadriiformes (large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life)

 Context examples 

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Campylobacter lari.

(Campylobacter lari, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

C. lari is associated in recurrent gastroenteritis in children, causes septicemia and enteritis in immunodeficient patients and is commensal in healthy seagulls, birds, mussels and oysters.

(Campylobacter lari, NCI Thesaurus)