: any of several nymphalid butterflies (genus Polygonia) with a silvery comma-shaped mark on the underside of the hind wings
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe answer depends on what role the second comma is playing. Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 26 July 2022 The compounding power of interest can be the difference between gaining an extra comma in your account or not. Eric Brotman, Forbes, 2 May 2022 Within the collection exists every possible combination of 25 characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and the space). Leslie Kendall Dye, The Atlantic, 19 June 2022 In this week’s SportsMoney Playbook: Tiger Woods joins the three-comma club, MLS's costly deal with Apple, and the Broncos bump up NFL team values. Matt Craig, Forbes, 17 June 2022 Grothendieck returned students’ drafts of papers with extensive markings, including comments on word choices and where a comma should go. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 Musk is hardly the only member of the three-comma club to make a splashy acquisition in the media space in search of influence and clout. Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 1 May 2022 Emily Morrison, a 36-year-old RN from Dover, Delaware, earned her comma on May 5, 2019. Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 3 June 2019 For a good hybrid mattress without a comma in the price tag, Allswell is a safe bet.Wired, 19 Feb. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin, from Latin, part of a sentence, from Greek komma segment, clause, from koptein to cut — more at capon