entire
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entire /ɪnˈtʌɪə, ɛn-/
▶adjective
- 1 with no part left out; whole.
■ without qualification; absolute.
- 2 not broken, damaged, or decayed.
- 3 (of a male horse) not castrated.
- 4 Botany (of a leaf) without indentations or division into leaflets.
– origin ME: from OFr. entier, based on L. integer ‘untouched, whole’, from in- ‘not’ + tangere ‘to touch’.
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