: any of several nymphalid butterflies (genus Polygonia) with a silvery comma-shaped mark on the underside of the hind wings
Examples of comma in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebCassatt moves through her paintings without the touching neuroses of a James, without his curling smoke trails of clauses or qualifying commas.—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 27 June 2024 My statement was more of a comma than an exclamation in our dialogue.—Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024 There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024 Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for comma
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Word History
Etymology
Late Latin, from Latin, part of a sentence, from Greek komma segment, clause, from koptein to cut — more at capon
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