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Definition of Pukus
1. puku [n] - See also: puku
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pukus
Literary usage of Pukus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"Kasanka National Park is the world's greatest breeding ground of fruit bats, with
a large population of water-loving sitatunga antelopes, also pukus, ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"... The fossils that I send were found by myself on the surfaces of a series of
shales and sandstones, practically vertical and striking NNE-SSW, at pukus ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"... pukus, a kind of inordinate pulse, the first named from the ant, and felt upon
the fingers, the other like the motion of a worm, both signs of death ..."
4. The English Language and English Grammar: An Historical Study of the Sources by Samuel Ramsey (1892)
"The one now in common use is from the Lat. pukus, a stroke, a beating, a throbbing.
Curiously enough, it was often mistaken for a plural about the beginning ..."
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