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lexical definition

lexi·cal (lek′si kəl)

adjective

  1. of a vocabulary, or stock of words, as that of a language; specif., of words as isolated items of vocabulary rather than elements in a grammatical structure
  2. of, or having the nature of, a lexicon or lexicography

Etymology: ModL lexicalis < Gr lexikon, lexicon

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