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pluri-

Several.

Latin plus, plur‑, more, plures, several.

An immature cell that is pluripotent (Latin potent‑, being able) is capable of giving rise to several different cell types; something pluriform exists in more than one form; plurilingual refers to knowing or using many languages, multilingual; pluridisciplinary is equivalent to multidisciplinary; plurinominal refers to electoral constituencies returning more than one representative through proportional representation. See also multi‑.

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