A poisonous tree of Madagascar (Cerbera manghas (syn. Tanghinia venenifera). Those suspected of crime were forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals were put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.

(often followed by a number) Approximately.

In the manner of; along the lines of; like; of a similar kind to; more-or-less equivalent to.

(cricket) The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.

(mathematics, braid theory) A left-invariant total order on the braid group.

world order

The scientific observation that a man's statistical probability of being homosexual increases with the number of older brothers he has.

(logic) A formal deductive system which extends first-order logic by the ability to quantify over unary predicates over individual members of the universe of discourse.

plural of payment order

(finance, chiefly banking) An instruction from a sender to a receiving bank, transmitted orally, electronically, or in writing, to pay, or to cause another bank to pay a fixed and determinable amount of money to a beneficiary.