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MEDIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medical practitioner in the armed forces
Synonyms:
medic; medical officer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("medic" is a kind of...):
medical man; medical practitioner (someone who practices medicine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medic"):
flight surgeon (a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine)
Surgeon General (the senior medical officer in an Army or Navy)
Holonyms ("medic" is a member of...):
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("medic" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medic"):
Medicago arborea; moon trefoil (evergreen shrub of southern European highlands having downy foliage and a succession of yellow flowers throughout the summer followed by curious snail-shaped pods)
Medicago falcata; sickle alfalfa; sickle lucerne; sickle medick (European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods)
Calvary clover; Medicago echinus; Medicago intertexta (an annual of the Mediterranean area having spiny seed pods and leaves with dark spots)
black medick; hop clover; Medicago lupulina; nonesuch clover; yellow trefoil (prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America)
alfalfa; lucerne; Medicago sativa (important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop)
Holonyms ("medic" is a member of...):
genus Medicago; Medicago (a genus of herbs that resemble clover)
