CLAMANT

PRONUNCIATION: (KLAY-mant, KLAM-uhnt)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Loud.
2. Demanding attention; urgent.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin clamare (to cry out). Earliest documented use: 1639.
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CLAY ANT - a pre-Columbian scarab in the form of a six-legged insect

UCLA, MA, NT - the Bruins in Los Angeles have a New Technology, Mother

CALAMANT - squidlike