| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| diploe |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dip·lo·e |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d p l -  |
| NOUN: | The spongy, porous, bony tissue between the hard outer and inner bone layers of the cranium. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek diplo, a fold, doubling, from feminine of diplous, twofold. See dwo- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | diplo·ic (-l-k) —ADJECTIVE
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