Usually means: Mirror used in medical examinations.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. speculum: Merriam-Webster
  2. speculum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. speculum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. speculum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. speculum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Speculum, speculum: Wordnik
  7. speculum: Wiktionary
  8. speculum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. speculum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. speculum: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. speculum: Dictionary.com
  12. speculum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Speculum (journal), Speculum (medical), Speculum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Speculum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. speculum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. speculum: Rhymezone
  17. Speculum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. speculum: FreeDictionary.org
  19. speculum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. speculum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. speculum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speculum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. speculum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Speculum: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. speculum: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Speculum (medical), speculum: Medical dictionary
  9. Speculum: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. speculum: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Bird On! (No longer online)
  4. Speculum: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Speculum: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (speculum)

noun:  (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
noun:  A mirror, especially one used in a telescope.
noun:  (ornithology) A bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
noun:  A lookout place.

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