Definitions for lacunas

lacunas la·cu·na

Spelling: [luh-kyoo-nuh]
IPA: /ləˈkyu nə/

Lacunas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in lacunas (aaclnsu).

Definitions for lacunas

noun

  1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
  2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells.
  3. Botany. an air space in the cellular tissue of plants.

Origin of lacunas

1655-65; Latin lacūna ditch, pit, hole, gap, deficiency, akin to lacus vat, lake1. Cf. lagoon

Examples for lacunas

This stanza being incomplete, I think, the lacuna is to be put after l. 838.

This last prince was on the throne in 667, but his reign is followed by a lacuna of more than a century.

In this variant of the story, which we may use as our text, it is to be noticed that a lacuna exists.

This essay is an attempt to fill in a small part of the lacuna.

Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.

He had not the slightest notion what a lacuna, or its plural, signified.

The critique extends into nearly every little crevice and lacuna of our civic life.

There is evidently a lacuna, as the transition to Orestes is worse than abrupt.

Adopting Reiske's suggestion for filling out a lacuna in the sense.

The record of the first appears likely to be lost in the lacuna of 934 AH.

Word Value for lacunas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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