| AMAUROTIC | • amaurotic adj. Pertaining to or suffering from amaurosis. • AMAUROTIC adj. relating to amaurosis, partial or total blindness, without apparent change in the eye. |
| AMBULATOR | • ambulator n. A walker; one who walks. • AMBULATOR n. one who walks about; a walker. |
| AMPUTATOR | • amputator n. The person who performs, or thing that causes, an amputation. • AMPUTATOR n. one who amputates. |
| AUTOGAMIC | • autogamic adj. Exhibiting or relating to autogamy. • AUTOGAMIC adj. self-fertilizing, also AUTOGAMOUS. |
| AUTOMAGIC | • automagic n. A process carried out automatically in such a clever way that the result appears to be magic. • AUTOMAGIC adj. performing a task with astonishing ease and speed. |
| AUTOMAKER | • automaker n. One who manufactures automobiles; typically used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors. • AUTOMAKER n. a manufacturer of automobiles. |
| AUTOMATED | • automated adj. Made automatic. • automated adj. Done by machine. • automated v. Simple past tense and past participle of automate. |
| AUTOMATES | • automates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate. • AUTOMATE v. to convert to automatic control. |
| AUTOMATIC | • automatic adj. Capable of operating without external control or intervention. • automatic adj. Done out of habit or without conscious thought. • automatic adj. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc. |
| AUTOMATON | • automaton n. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions. • automaton n. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion. • automaton n. A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton. |
| AUTOSOMAL | • autosomal adj. Of or pertaining to autosomes. • AUTOSOMAL adj. of or like an autosome, a chromosome other than a sex chromosome. |
| CATAMOUNT | • catamount n. (US) A wild animal of the family Felidae, especially the cougar or puma (Puma concolor). • catamount n. (Obsolete) Synonym of catamountain (“a leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus)”). • CATAMOUNT n. any of various large wild cats, applied esp. to the leopard, panther or ocelot, also CATAMOUNTAIN. |
| COMATULAE | • comatulae n. Plural of comatula. • COMATULA n. (Latin) a type of crinoid, aka feather star, also COMATULID. |
| FUMATORIA | • fumatoria n. Plural of fumatorium. • FUMATORIUM n. (Latin) a place for smoking or fumigation, also FUMATORY. |
| MARABOUTS | • marabouts n. Plural of marabout. • MARABOUT n. (French) an African stork, also MARABOU. |
| MATAGOURI | • matagouri n. A thorny shrub endemic to New Zealand, taxonomic name Discaria toumatou. • MATAGOURI n. (Maori) a thorny bush of New Zealand, forming thickets in open country. |
| NEUROMATA | • neuromata n. Plural of neuroma. • NEUROMA n. a tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve. |
| PARAMOUNT | • paramount adj. (Often postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent. • paramount adj. Of the highest importance. • paramount adj. (Obsolete) Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another. |
| TAMBOURAS | • tambouras n. Plural of tamboura. • TAMBOURA n. (Arabic) an Eastern stringed instrument, used to produce a drone, also TAMBUR, TAMBURA. |