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ICONIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
icon (a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church)
Derivation:
icon (a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church)
icon (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
icon ((computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface)
Context examples:
Subsequent eradication efforts have been necessary to protect the iconic finches.
(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)
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