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vas¹

  • /ˈvæs/
  • /ˈvæz/

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Borrowed from Latin vās (“vessel”) around 1645 through 1655. Doublet of vase.

noun vasa

  1. A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen.
  2. abbreviation, ellipsis, specifically Ellipsis of vas deferens The vesiculæ are bound down, or fixed, by the vesical fascia. They are about two inches long, and, at the broadest part, which is the middle, they are from five to seven-eighths of an inch broad. They are close by the outside of the vasa, and their extremities are two inches and a half distant, for

Vas²

proper noun

  1. A county of Hungary.

VAs³

noun

  1. plural plural of VA

VAS⁴

noun

  1. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of vitamin A supplementation
  2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of virtual address space

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: vessel, channel, sav, eva, channels, conduits, ducts, gonna, duct, canal, tube, conduit, pipe, tract, passage, passageway

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"vas." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/vas. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

vas. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/vas

Chicago

"vas." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/vas.

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@misc{vas_2026,
  title = {vas},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vas},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}