eighty-four
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The cardinal number immediately following eighty-three and preceding eighty-five.
- Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430:
- Synonyms
- 84, LXXXIV, LXXXIIII