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 Comprehensive \Com`pre*hen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. compr['e]hensif.]
   1. Including much; comprising many things; having a wide
      scope or a full view.
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            A very comprehensive definition.      --Bentley.
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            Large and comprehensive idea.         --Channing.
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   2. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
      "His comprehensive head." --Pope.
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   3. (Zool.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic
      of several diverse groups.
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   Note: The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups
         which have a combination of structures that appear in
         more fully developed or specialized forms in later
         groups. Synthetic, as used by Agassiz, is nearly
         synonymous.

   Syn: Extensive; wide; large; full; compendious.
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