pauce

From Latin paucus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔs/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /pɑs/
• Rhymes: -ɔːs

pauce (comparative more pauce, superlative most pauce)

1. (rare) Subject to or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.
   • 1966, Tōhoku Daigaku. Science Reports, v.37-38 1965-1967, Tōhoku University: 1966, page 208

     […] although the foraminiferal content is pauce.

   • 1983, Academy of Political Science (U.S.) Political Science Quarterly; New York, v.98 (1983-84), page 521

     Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible.

   • 1996, Tony Whitten, Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Suraya A. Afiff, The Ecology of Java and Bali, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1997, page 600:

     So, although it is often asserted that monocultures lead to increased risks of disease and pest attack, the evidence is pauce.

pauce

1. vocative masculine singular of paucus