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: of, relating to, or being tissue (as of the lymph nodes or thymus) containing lymphocytes
: of, relating to, or resembling lymph
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1867, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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: of, relating to, or being tissue (as the lymph nodes or thymus) containing lymphocytes
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