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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
  • forestry a fast growing, light colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer highlighted to one?s view.
  • obsolete A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
  • The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.

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