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    CATENA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: catenae  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)play

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("catena" is a kind of...):

    chain; concatenation (a series of things depending on each other as if linked together)

    Derivation:

    catenate; catenulate (arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores)

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