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PEPLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peplus mean? 

PEPLUS (noun)
  The noun PEPLUS has 1 sense:

1. a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waistplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PEPLUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

peplos; peplum; peplus

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

garment (an article of clothing)


 Context examples 


A selective small-molecule activator of protein kinase C (PKC) isolated from the plant Euphorbia peplus with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Ingenol Mebutate, NCI Thesaurus)



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