comma, comma butterfly, Polygonia comma
(noun) anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
comma
(noun) a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
comma (plural commas or commata)
(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
Synonyms: scratch comma, virgule, virgula (in its obsolete form as a slash), come (in its obsolete form as a middot), comma-point (obsolete)
Hyponyms: comma of Didymus, inverted comma, Oxford comma, serial comma, syntonic comma
(Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
(music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
(rhetoric) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
(figurative) A brief interval.
comma (third-person singular simple present commas, present participle commaing, simple past and past participle commaed)
(rare, transitive) To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"ma, n. Etym: [L. comma part of a sentence, comma, Gr. Capon.]
1. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: A small interval (the difference beyween a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus.
– Comma butterfly (Zoöl.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under side of the wings.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
