English Explanatory Dictionary

Meroic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to the ancient African civilization south of Egypt with the capital city Meroë.
  2. Alternative form of Meroitic.
adj
  1. Pertaining to nephridia that are formed by longitudinal or traverse fragmentation of a single original pair of embryonic rudiments in each segment.

Word forms

Meroic Meroitic Merotic

Etymology

From Meroe + -ic.

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