Echoic

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  • adjective. Of or resembling an echo.
  • adjective. Imitative of natural sounds; onomatopoeic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or formed by echoism; onomatopoetic. See extract under echoism.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic.
  • adjective. Like or characteristic of an echo.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to an echo
  • adjective. imitative of a sound; onomatopoeic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
  • adjective. like or characteristic of an echo
  • Word Usage
    "coccyx: 1615, from Gk. kokkyx "cuckoo" from kokku, like the bird's Eng. name echoic of its cry, so called by ancient Gk. physician Galen because the bone in humans supposedly resembles a cuckoo's beak."
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