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4 words match “INFANTILE”

INFANTILE a.
g to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS n.
An acute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.
INFANTINE a.
Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.
ROSE n.
etc. See under Cabbage, China, etc. -- Corn rose (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn. -- Infantile rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. -- Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica. -- Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms. -- Rose aniline.…