Usually means: Highest point; peak; summit.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word culmen:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. culmen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. culmen: Collins English Dictionary
  3. culmen: Wiktionary
  4. culmen: Dictionary.com
  5. Culmen (bird), Culmen (cerebellum), Culmen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Culmen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. culmen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Culmen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. culmen: FreeDictionary.org
  10. culmen: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Culmen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. culmen: Wordnik

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. culmen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. culmen: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. culmen: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (culmen)

▸ noun:  Top; summit.
▸ noun:  (zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

Similar:
crest, cantle, copple-crown, clifftop, copple, cuspule, cumulus, crux, cimier, cume, more...

Adjectives:
curved, straight, total, latin, arched, dusky, third, decurved, exposed, dark, last

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Similar:
crest, cantle, copple-crown, clifftop, copple, cuspule, cumulus, crux, cimier, cume, more...

Adjectives:
curved, straight, total, latin, arched, dusky, third, decurved, exposed, dark, last



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