| abloom |
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adverb
- (postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state.
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| abortive |
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noun - (Obsolete): That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. - Shakespeare, Richard III, I-iii
- (Obsolete): A fruitless effort or issue.
- A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient - Dunglison
adjective - (Rare): Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an child.
- (Obsolete): Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, vellum.
- (Obsolete): Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
- Quotations
- Plunged in that gulf. Milton
- Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an attempt.
- Quotations
- An enterprise. - Prescott
- (biology): Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an organ, stamen, ovule, etc.
- (medicine): Causing abortion; as, medicines. - Parr
- (medicine): Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.
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| abrupt |
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- (poetic) Something which is
- Adjective, abrupt.
- Over the vast abrupt. - Milton
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verb
- (transitive) To tear off or asunder; to interrupt suddenly.
- Till death abrupts them. - Sir T. Browne
adjective (more abrupt or abrupter, most abrupt or abruptest)
- Broken off; very steep or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; as, places.
- Tumbling through ricks . - Thomson
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- The cause of your departure. - Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, II-iii
- curt, Curt in manner; rude; uncivil; impolite.
- Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected.
- The party came to an end when the parents of our host arrived.
- The style, which hath many breaches. - B. Jonson
- (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncated.
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| abscise |
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verb (abscis, ing)
- (transitive) To cut off.
- (intransitive) (botany) To separate by means of abscission.
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| abscission |
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noun ((plural): abscissions)
- The act or process of cutting off.
- Quotations
- Not to be cured without the abscission of a member. - w:Jeremy Taylor, Jer. Taylor
- The state of being cut off. - Sir T. Browne
- rhetoric: A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."
- (botany) The separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
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| acarpous |
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adjective - (Botany): Not producing fruit; unfruitful
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| acaulescent |
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adjective
- (botany) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground - Gray.
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| accrescent |
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adjective
- Growing; increasing. - Shuckford
- (botany) Growing larger after flowering - Gray
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| accrete |
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verb (accret, ing)
- (intransitive): To grow together, combine.
- Astronomers believe the Earth began to six billion years ago.
- (intransitive): To adhere; to grow (to); to be added.
- (transitive): To make adhere; to add.
adjective
- Characterized by accretion; made up; as, matter.
- (botany) Grown together - Gray
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| accumbent |
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noun
- One who reclines at table.
adjective
- Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
- Quotations
- The Roman ... posture in eating. - Arbuthnot
- (Botany): Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf - Gray
- Quotations
- Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle. - Eaton
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| acerate |
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noun
- (Chemistry): A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
adjective
- Acerose; needle-shaped.
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| acerose |
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adjective
- (botany) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
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| acerous |
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adjective
- (alternative spelling of, acerose)
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| acetabuliform |
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adjective
- (botany) Shaped like a saucer or shallow cup.
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| achene |
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noun
- (botany) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists
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| achlamydeous |
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adjective
- (botany) Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.
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| achlorophyllous |
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adjective
- (context, botany) not having chlorophyll and, hence, unable to engage in photosynthesis
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| aciform |
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adjective
- Shaped like a needle.
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| acinaceous |
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adjective - (botany): Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.
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| acinaciform |
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adjective - (Botany): Scimeter-shaped; as an leaf.
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| acinus |
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noun (acini)
- (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- (botany) A grapestone.
- (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. - w:Richard Quain, Richard Quain.
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| acotyledon |
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noun
- (botany) A plant that has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.
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| acrogen |
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noun - (biology) any flowerless plant whose growth takes place at the tip of the main stem, especially the cryptogam ferns
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| acrospire |
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noun
- the sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate
(Webster)
verb
- To put forth the first sprout
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| actinomorphic |
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adjective - (botany) (i, of a flower) Having its petals arranged in a radially symmetric fashion.
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| aculeus |
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noun (plural aculei)
- A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
- A sting.
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| adhesion |
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noun
- The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
- A feeling of attachment (e.g. an infant to its parents).
- An agreement to adhere
- (medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
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| agglomerate |
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noun
- A collection or mass.
- (geology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
verb (agglomerates, agglomerating, agglomerated)
- To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
adjective
- collect, Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
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| agrostology |
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noun
- the study of grasses
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| ALA |
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initialism - Alpha Linolenic Acid
- American Library Association
- Acacia Leadership Academy
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| albumen |
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noun (albumens, pl2=albumina, -)
- The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.
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| alpine |
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
- Like the Alps; lofty. ``Gazing up an Alpine height.'' --Tennyson.
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| amendment |
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noun
- An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- In public bodies; Any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- Correction of an error in a writ or process.
- An addition to and/or alteration of the United States Constitution, as in "The First Amendment guarantees the right of free speech."
- That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
- a soil
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| anandrous |
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adjective - lacking stamens; devoid of male parts in plants
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| androgyne |
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noun
- A person who is androgynous.
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| androgynous |
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adjective
- Pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively male or female.
- Names like Terry, Pat, and Jean are because they can be given to both men and women.
- A condition in which gender is unknown, ambivalent, indeterminate, or neuter.
- Possessing qualities of both sexes.
- Possessing both male and female sex organs.
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| angiosperm |
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noun
- (botany) A member of the plant group characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; the angiosperms or flowering plants: the Angiospermae, Magnoliophyta, Magnoliopsida, etc.
adjective
- (botany) pertaining to the angiosperms.
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| anisotropic |
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adjective
- (physics) Having properties that differ according to the direction of measurement; exhibiting anisotropy.
- The crystal has an structure, as it is stronger along its length than laterally.
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| annual |
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noun
- something that is published once a year
adjective
- happening once every year.
- The meeting will be held on ...
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| anther |
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noun - (botany) The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.
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| apetalous |
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adjective
- Having no petals.
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| aphyllous |
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adjective - (botany) Having no leaves.
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| appendage |
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noun
- an external body part that projects from the body
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism
- a part that is joined to something larger
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| arboreal |
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adjective
- of, relating to, or resembling a tree
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| arboriculture |
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noun
- The branch of horticulture concerned with the planting and growth of trees
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| aril |
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noun
- A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits.
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| ascending |
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verb
- (present participle of, ascend)
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| assimilation |
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noun
- The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
- The metabolic conversion of nutriments into tissue.
- (context, by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
- (linguistics) The modification of a sound such that it becomes similar to an adjacent sound.
- The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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| assurgent |
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noun
- (heraldry) A man or beast rising out of the sea.
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| attenuate |
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verb (attenuat, ing)
- (transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree
- (transitive) To weaken
- (transitive) To rarefy
- (transitive) To reduce the virulence of a bacteria or virus
- (transitive) (electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical signal
adjective
- (botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
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| autogamy |
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noun
- Self-fertilize, fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
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| avenaceous |
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adjective
- Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.
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| axil |
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noun
- The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
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| axilla |
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noun (plural: axillae)
- The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
- The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
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| axillary |
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
- Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.
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| Axis |
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proper noun the Axis
- The alliance group before and during World War II consisting of Germany, Italy, Japan, and allied countries.
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