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Oxia vs Oxea - What's the difference?

oxia | oxea |

As nouns the difference between oxia and oxea

is that oxia is while oxea is a monoaxial spicule which is pointed at both ends.

oxia

English

Alternative forms

*

Noun

(oxiae)
  • .

    • Usage notes

    * In a diphthong, the oxia is written atop the second of the two vowels. * The oxia is virtually identical in form to the Latin-script  ?. * The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic, the ; nevertheless, the oxia and tonos have identical appearance in all but the most scrupulous typesetting.

    See also

    ; Other Ancient Greek diacritics * * * * * *

    oxea

    English

    Noun

  • a monoaxial spicule which is pointed at both ends

    • Usage notes

    * The Oxford English Dictionary lists only the plural oxea'', but other sources"oxea" in ''Glossary of geology'' by Jackson, Julia A., James P. Mehl, and Klaus KE Neuendorf, eds. Springer, 2005. list the plurals ''oxeae'' (by analogy to Latin feminine nouns such as (m) ~ (m)) or ''oxeas (by generalization to standard English pluralization).

    Antonyms

    * (pointed spicule)

    Derived terms

    *

    References