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HERM
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Irregular inflected form: hermae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("herm" is a kind of...):
statue (a sculpture representing a human or animal)
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