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PEPLUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peplus mean?
• PEPLUS (noun)
The noun PEPLUS has 1 sense:
1. a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
Familiarity information: PEPLUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("peplus" is a kind of...):
garment (an article of clothing)
Context examples
A selective small-molecule activator of protein kinase C (PKC) isolated from the plant Euphorbia peplus with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Ingenol Mebutate, NCI Thesaurus)
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