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tat•pur•u•sha
Pronunciation: (tat-poor'u-shu, tut-), [key]—
n. Ling.
a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as
bookcase, aircraft, or
flowerpot.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.