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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vessel/ˈvesl/
▶noun
  • 1 a ship or large boat.
  • 2 a hollow container used to hold liquid.
  • 3 Anatomy & Zoology a duct or canal conveying blood or other fluid.

    ■ Botany any of the tubular structures in the vascular system of a plant, serving to conduct water and nutrients from the root.

  • 4 (in or after biblical use) a person regarded as embodying a particular quality: she was inherently the weaker vessel.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. vessel(e), from late L. vascellum, dimin. of vas ‘vessel’.



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