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OBOLUS
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Irregular inflected form: oboli
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("obolus" is a kind of...):
weight; weight unit (a unit used to measure weight)
Holonyms ("obolus" is a part of...):
g; gm; gram; gramme (a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram)