question mark

question mark
1. Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
2. something unanswered or unknown: His identity is still a question mark to most of us.
3. an anglewing butterfly, Polygonia interrogationis, having silver spots shaped like a question mark on the underside of each hind wing.
[1865-70]

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