AMELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amelia mean? 

• AMELIA (noun)
  The noun AMELIA has 1 sense:

1. congenital absence of an arm or leg

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Congenital absence of an arm or leg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

birth defect; congenital abnormality; congenital anomaly; congenital defect; congenital disorder (a defect that is present at birth)

 Context examples 

The concept includes amelia, hemimelia, and phocomelia.

(Ectromelia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Amelia should be a small, light, girlish, skipping figure.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Amelia is a character more difficult to be well represented than even Agatha.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)