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   Tract

   /trak(t)/

   

   noun

   • 1. an area of indefinite extent, typically a large one: "large tracts of natural forest"
   • ▪ an indefinitely large extent of something: "the vast tracts of time required to account for the deposition of the strata"
   • 2. a major passage in the body, large bundle of nerve fibers, or other continuous elongated anatomical structure or region: "the digestive tract"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘duration or course of time’): from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draft’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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