cent|ge|ner

cent|ge|ner
cent|ge|ner «SEHNT juh nuhr», noun.
one hundred or any considerable number of representatives of a race, variety, or strain of domesticated animals or cultivated plants, considered as a true sample of the whole.
[< Latin centum hundred + genus, generis kind]

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