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adenoid
 
Adjective adenoid has 1 sense
  1. adenoid - relating to or resembling lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue
Noun adenoid has 1 sense
  1. pharyngeal tonsil, adenoid, Luschka's tonsil, third tonsil, tonsilla pharyngealis, tonsilla adenoidea - a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx); "hypertrophy of the pharyngeal tonsils is called adenoids"; "enlarged adenoids may restrict the breathing of children"
    --1 is a kind of lymphatic tissue, lymphoid tissue
    --1 is a part of throat, pharynx
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