hamlet

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   A small settlement or a group of houses, often defined as a settlement smaller than a village.

   • Coal′brookdale, a hamlet of England, co. of Salop, on a railway, 2 miles N. of Broseley, on the Severn. Pop. 1574, engaged in collieries, foundries, and fire-brick and tobacco-pipe manufactories. — 1880
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   (UK) A village that does not have its own church.

   • One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts. — 1604
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   (Canada) An unincorporated community of whatever size, lacking its own municipal government, but with defined boundaries.

   • […] Wessex county (a pseudonym) comprising rural area (pop. 8,434); four incorporated towns plus the section of land containing the largest hamlet in the county (pop. 2,489) — 1970
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   Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

   • Larval hamlets are similar to larval Serranus and spend several weeks in the plankton feeding on a variety of tiny crustaceans and invertebrates before metamorphosing and settling on to the reef. — 1980

noun1

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   A protein complex of alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells.