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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.

2. Having the organs or parts of one side correspponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry.See Symmetry, 2.

3. Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.

4. Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.

5. Having a common measure; commensurable.

6. Having corresponding parts or relations.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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