medlars

Questions about medlars

What is another word for medlars?

It depends which medlars you mean. In the sense “relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature”, the synonyms are Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of medlars?

WordNet records no antonym for medlars. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for medlars come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for medlarsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for medlarsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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