pluricentric

English

Etymology

From plur- (“many”) (from Latin stem of plus (“more”)) +‎ -centric.

Adjective

pluricentric (comparative more pluricentric, superlative most pluricentric)

  1. Having more than one center; multicentric.
    • 1910, John George Adami; Albert George Nicholls, The Principles of Pathology, page 693:
      Tumors which appear to grow from a single focus are spoken of as unicentric. Some growths are clearly pluricentric, or multicentric.
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