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mediocris

[ mee-dee-oh-kris ]

adjective

Meteorology.
  1. (of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.


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Origin of mediocris1

< New Latin: mediocre
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Example Sentences

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That’s why shrews whose species names mean such things as “hairy-tailed” and ”long” have been joined by “Crocidura mediocris,” “C. normalis,” “C. ordinaria,” and “C. solita” — the last of those meaning “usual.”

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Cauda mediocris, emarginata, rectricibus 12, sub-paribus.

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The "breathtaking" images are a "fine example of cumulus mediocris" clouds, showing where warm air was rising with showers possible later, according to the weatherman.

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Cicero, in his treatise De Finibus, calls his learning mediocris; though, afterwards, in the person of Crassus, in his treatise De Oratore, he twice terms him Doctus412.

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Medius ÎŒáœłÏƒÎżÏ‚ is purely local, in the middle, in opp. to the extremes; modicus denotes quantity, with reference to number and magnitude, as moderate, in opp. to over-measure; mediocris denotes quality, with reference to worth, as middling, in opp. to distinction; hence modicĂŠ facultates and mediocre ingenium are identical.

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