"communicatrix" meaning in All languages combined

See communicatrix on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: communicatrices [plural], communicatrixes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|communicatrices|+}} communicatrix (plural communicatrices or communicatrixes)
  1. (rare) A female communicator. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-communicatrix-en-noun-9hgv0ADB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "I see now that, hobbled by hobby, I’ve presented my wife as a very intricately programmed phatic communicatrix (or whatever the sociological jargon is).",
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          "ref": "1971, J. B. S. Haldane, “Animal Ritual and Human Language”, in The Cosmos Reader, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 139:",
          "text": "Other bees smell the communicatrix, or receive small draughts of scented liquid from her, and then search for food sources with the appropriate scent.",
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          "ref": "1992 May 31, “Classified”, in Sunday Province, Vancouver, B.C., page D4, column 3:",
          "text": "Attractive, prof. d/w/m, owner of 5 garlic presses, seeks adventurous 40+ communicatrix, over 5'3'\", a smart, lithesome woman.",
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          "ref": "2000, China Miéville, Perdido Street Station, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 608:",
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          "ref": "2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 311:",
          "text": "In the thaumaturgic listening post in the Spike, the echelon of communicators and communicatrices would be blinking fast and trying to decipher from the city’s welter of cognition which illicit topics were being spoken.",
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