Definitions for plexus

plexus plex·us

Spelling: [plek-suh s]
IPA: /ˈplɛk səs/

Plexus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in plexus (elpsux).

Definitions for plexus

noun

  1. a network, as of nerves or blood vessels.
  2. any complex structure containing an intricate network of parts:

Origin of plexus

1675-85; New Latin: an interweaving, twining, equivalent to Latin plect(ere) to plait, twine + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for plexus

There it stood, a plexus of energies, in the midst of darkness and sleep.

But the plexus of causes returneth in which I am intertwined,—it will again create me!

plexus: a knot: applied to a knot-like mass of nerves, or tracheae.

From the plexus are derived the nerves of the pelvic limb (Sisson).

What is a plexus of the sun, and how doth it blow on a bull?

Lost, and forgotten in the plexus of the city's life, what had befallen them?

Give him a punch in the plexus, Bill, advised one of the latters seconds.

How, then, is the greater length of the plexus to be covered by a single "missing link?"

No a priori induction will ever extend this line or plexus to man.

This plexus is called by modern anatomists the rete mirabile.

Word Value for plexus
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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