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Feb 14, 2012
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de•scend•er



Pronunciation: (di-sen'dur), [key]
—n.
1. a person or thing that descends.
2. Print.
a. the part of a lowercase letter that goes below the body.
b. a letter having such a part, as p, q, j, or y.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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