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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
noun a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
originLate Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (ărtērĭ́ā, “windpipe; artery”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0