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ques'tion mark"
1. Also called
interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
2. something unanswered or unknown:
His identity is still a question mark to most of us.
3. an anglewing butterfly,
Polygonia interrogationis, having silver spots shaped like a question mark on the underside of each hind wing.
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