aspis
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Is aspis a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (historical) A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers.Examples: ""shield both large and tough" has never said that aspides are small and weak […]"historical
2. (archaic) An asp or generic venomous snakeExamples: "Flesh dipped in the sea Ægeum will never be sweet; the herb Trigion being once bit with an aspis never groweth, and conscience once stained with innocent blood is always tied to a guilty remorse."archaic
3. (palynology) A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grainExamples: "As might be expected, characters of the aspides themselves are not of much value in pollen identification, but they are easily recognized and many three-pored, aspidate grains are broadly categorized as "betuloid" in studies of airborne pollen."
Definition source: Wiktionary