emended
Meaning
of Emend
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the emended text
Some of the dates in the document are clearly corrupt, but they can be emended to make the sixteen years in the table consistent with a regular intercalation scheme.
This formal notation is sometimes emended to use double hyphens instead (as 1939--1945) to permit its use in file names.
The genus name was emended to the current Pterodactylus by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815.
The term was originally used by James Dwight Dana to refer to Xiphosura only, but was emended by Henry Woodward to cover both groups.
This was emended to the family Pterodactylidae by Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1838.