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menstruum
Overview of noun menstruum
The noun menstruum has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. menstruum -- ((archaic) a solvent)
2. menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow -- (the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun menstruum
2 senses of menstruum
Sense 1
menstruum
=> solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent
=> medium
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
=> discharge, emission, expelling
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun menstruum
1 of 2 senses of menstruum
Sense 2
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
=> menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea
=> oligomenorrhea
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun menstruum
2 senses of menstruum
Sense 1
menstruum
=> solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent
Sense 2
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
=> discharge, emission, expelling
Antonyms of noun menstruum
Member Holonyms of noun menstruum
Substance Holonyms of noun menstruum
Part Holonyms of noun menstruum
Member Meronyms of noun menstruum
Substance Meronyms of noun menstruum
Part Meronyms of noun menstruum
Meronyms of noun menstruum
Holonyms of noun menstruum
Attributes of noun menstruum
Derived Forms of noun menstruum
Domain of noun menstruum
1 of 2 senses of menstruum
Sense 1
menstruum
USAGE>(noun) archaism#1, archaicism#1
Domain Terms of noun menstruum
Familiarity of noun menstruum
menstruum used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun menstruum
2 senses of menstruum
Sense 1
menstruum
> solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent
=> acetone, propanone, dimethyl ketone
=> chlorobenzene
=> carbolic acid, phenol, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid
=> carbon tetrachloride, carbon tet, tetrachloromethane, perchloromethane
=> hexane
=> menstruum
=> naphtha
=> remover
=> alkahest, alcahest, universal solvent
=> toluene, methylbenzene
=> xylene, xylol
Sense 2
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
> discharge, emission, expelling
=> ejaculation
=> elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
=> menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
Meronyms of noun menstruum
2 senses of menstruum
Holonyms of noun menstruum
Grep of noun menstruum
menstruum
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