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FLORILEGIUM (florilegia)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does florilegium mean? 

FLORILEGIUM (noun)
  The noun FLORILEGIUM has 1 sense:

1. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.play

  Familiarity information: FLORILEGIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLORILEGIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

florilegium; garland; miscellany

Hypernyms ("florilegium" is a kind of...):

anthology (a collection of selected literary passages)


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