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Definition of Linear a
1. Noun. An undeciphered writing system used in Crete in the 17th century B.C..
Definition of Linear a
1. Proper noun. a syllabary used to write the as-yet-undeciphered Minoan language, and an apparent predecessor to other scripts, such as Linear B ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Linear A
Literary usage of Linear a
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Scape elongated and climbing, from a coate.d conn, bearing a many-flowered umbel
with jointed pedicels; leaves broadly linear. A single Californian species. ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Leaves all narrow ; lower spatulate-linear, barely 3-toothed the roundish summit;
upper entire and more linear, a line or less wide: heads small: ..."
3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1903)
"... linear. A great number project considerably above the surface. It is interesting
to note that a very large hypertrophic scar exists on the front of and ..."
4. The Inscriptions of Kourion by Terence Bruce Mitford (1971)
"The rightward direction of the linear a and B tablets of Late Helladic Greece
is (it would seem) maintained alike by the Cypro-Minoan of late sixteenth and ..."
5. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Stigmas 3, spreading, linear, a little dilated upwards, bifid, the segments
linear, acute, spreading. Capsule oblong, б-channelled, every other channel ..."
6. Handbook of the Irideæ by John Gilbert Baker (1892)
"Leaves linear, a foot long, -J- in. broad, firm in texture, acuminate, greenish,
finely ribbed ... Leaves narrow linear, a foot long, firm, strongly ribbed. ..."
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