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PUS

Pronunciation (US):

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

1. the tenth month of the Hindu calendar
2. a fluid product of inflammation

Familiarity information: PUS used as a noun is rare.

• PUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The tenth month of the Hindu calendar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Pansa; Pus

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

Hindu calendar month (any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar)

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

Hindu calendar (the lunisolar calendar governing the religious life of Hindus; an extra month is inserted after every month in which there are two new moons (once every three years))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A fluid product of inflammation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

sanies; festering; ichor; purulence; pus; suppuration

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

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pus"):

gleet (a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea)

"The exception proves the rule."
(English proverb)
"The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry."
(Native American proverb, Omaha)
"If two thieves quarreled, what was stolen emerges."
(Arabic proverb)
"Barking dogs don't bite."
(Dutch proverb)

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