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ADJECTIVE:
  1. Twentieth.
  2. Proceeding or occurring in intervals of 20.
  3. Based on or relating to 20.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin vgsimus, variant of vcsimus, twentieth, from vgint, twenty; see wkt- in Indo-European roots


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