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eunuch
1. a castrated man employed as a harem attendant or functionary in certain Oriental courts.
2. A castrated man, employed in Asia, and later in Greece, to take charge of the women and to act as a chamberlain.
3. A man or boy deprived of the testes or the external genital organs, especially one castrated before puberty (so that male secondary sex characteristics fail to develop).
2. A castrated man, employed in Asia, and later in Greece, to take charge of the women and to act as a chamberlain.
3. A man or boy deprived of the testes or the external genital organs, especially one castrated before puberty (so that male secondary sex characteristics fail to develop).
eunuch, unique
eunuch (YOO nuhk) (noun)
A man who has been castrated: It was said that Cleopatra employed several private servants; the favorite eunuch among her servants was allowed to carry her fan.
unique (yoo NEEK) (adjective)
Unequaled, distinctive, one of a kind; typically used without qualifying modifiers: The color of Daphine's eyes was unique, or exceptional, and enchanting.
The senior eunuch in the court was in a unique position to know all the court intrigues.
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uni-, un-
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(Greek > Latin: literally, guardian of the bed)
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A plant which completes its life cycle without producing any seeds.
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