| AQUAROBICS | • aquarobics n. Alternative form of aquaerobics. • AQUAROBICS n. a system of exercises, similar to aerobics, performed to music in chest-high water, also AQUAEROBICS. |
| BACULIFORM | • baculiform adj. Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped. • BACULIFORM adj. rod-shaped. |
| BICORNUATE | • bicornuate adj. (Medicine) Resembling a pair of horns, as a malformed uterus may. • BICORNUATE adj. having two horns or hornlike parts, also BICORNATE. |
| BINOCULARS | • binoculars n. A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they… • BINOCULAR n. a binocular telescope. |
| BUCCINATOR | • buccinator n. (Anatomy) A thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek. • BUCCINATOR n. a flat cheek muscle used in chewing and blowing. |
| CARBONIUMS | • carboniums n. Plural of carbonium. • CARBONIUM n. a type of positively charged organic ion. |
| CHAIRBOUND | • chairbound adj. Unable to leave one’s chair, or confined to a wheelchair. • CHAIRBOUND adj. confined to a chair. |
| CHORIAMBUS | • choriambus n. (Poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the… • CHORIAMBUS n. a metrical foot comprising a trochee and an iambus, also CHORIAMB, CHORIAMBIC. |
| COLUBRIADS | • COLUBRIAD n. (Cowper) the epic of a snake. |
| COLUMBARIA | • columbaria n. Plural of columbarium. • COLUMBARIUM n. (Latin) a vault with niches for storing urns; a dovecote or pigeon house. |
| CORBICULAE | • corbiculae n. Plural of corbicula. • CORBICULA n. (Latin) the pollen basket of bees, consisting of the dilated posterior tibia with its fringe of long hairs. |
| COURBARILS | • courbarils n. Plural of courbaril. • COURBARIL n. the West Indian locust-tree. |
| INCUBATORS | • incubators n. Plural of incubator. • INCUBATOR n. an apparatus for hatching eggs by artificial heat. |
| INCUBATORY | • incubatory adj. Serving for incubation. • INCUBATORY adj. serving for incubation. |
| LUBRICATOR | • lubricator n. A device that lubricates, that applies lubricant. • lubricator n. A person employed to lubricate. • LUBRICATOR n. one who, or that which, lubricates. |
| OBDURACIES | • obduracies n. Plural of obduracy. • OBDURACY n. the quality of hardness of heart. |
| ORBICULATE | • orbiculate adj. Spherical or circular; orbicular. • orbiculate n. That which is orbiculate, especially a solid whose vertical section is oval and whose horizontal section is circular. • ORBICULATE adj. having the shape of a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular, also ORBICULATED. |
| PROCAMBIUM | • procambium n. (Botany) A meristem that lies just inside the protoderm and develops into primary xylem and primary phloem. • PROCAMBIUM n. the young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. |
| RUBIACEOUS | • rubiaceous adj. Of or pertaining to the large and diverse family of flowering plants known as Rubiaceae. • RUBIACEOUS adj. belonging to madder family of plants. |
| RUBRICATOR | • rubricator n. (Historical) The person who wrote the red titles and headings in a manuscript. • RUBRICATOR n. one who rubricates. |