amb

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From ambit, from Latin.

NounEdit

amb (plural ambs)

(palynology) The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
- 1970, Robert Max Kosanke, editor, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary:
  This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.

TranslationsEdit

outline of a spore or pollen grain

Portuguese: amb m

AnagramsEdit

-mab, ABM, B. M. A., BMA, Bam, MAb, MBA, Mab, Mba, bam, mAb, mab

CatalanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

ab (archaic)

EtymologyEdit

From Old Catalan ab (Compare Old Occitan ab), from Latin apud. The addition of an -m- is very old, but it was not reflected in spelling until Fabra's orthography in the twentieth century.

PronunciationEdit

(Oriental)
- (before a vowel) IPA^(key): /əmb/
- (before a consonant) IPA^(key): /əm/
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- - Homophone: em
(Occidental)
- (before a vowel) IPA^(key): /amb/, /an/, /en/
- (before a consonant) IPA^(key): /am/, /an/, /en/
  - Homophone: en
- Notes: the standard pronunciations are /amb/ and /am/. The pronunciation /en/ is typically used in the Valencian Country and parts of Catalonia, the pronunciation /an/ is used in some southern parts of the Valencian Country.