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cohort
Biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subclass (usually of mammals) or subfamily (of plants)

cohort [′kō‚hȯrt]
(statistics)
A group of individuals who experience a significant event, such as birth, during the same period of time.


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Numbers of artists had arranged to go, accompanied by a whole cohort of models and pupils, who, by midnight, began to create a tremendous din.
He ceas'd; and th' Archangelic Power prepar'd For swift descent, with him the Cohort bright Of watchful Cherubim; four faces each Had, like a double JANUS, all thir shape Spangl'd with eyes more numerous then those Of ARGUS, and more wakeful then to drouze, Charm'd with ARCADIAN Pipe, the Pastoral Reed Of HERMES, or his opiate Rod.
A girl of the painted cohorts of the city went along the street.
 
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