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Definition of: decuman
(dek′y
·mən) adjective
1. Principal; chief; large.
2. Of or pertaining to the tenth or hypothetically largest recurrent ocean wave.
—noun A great wave. [<L decumanus, var. of decimanus of the tenth part, large <decimus tenth]
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