Definitions for plexuses

plexuses plex·us

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

Plexuses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in plexuses (eelpssux).

Definitions for plexuses

noun

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

Origin of plexuses

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

Examples for plexuses

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This plexus is called by modern anatomists the rete mirabile.

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

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

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

Word Value for plexuses
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15

Words with friends

18

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