| ACROPHOBES | • acrophobes n. Plural of acrophobe. • ACROPHOBE n. someone with an abnormal fear of heights. |
| AEROPHOBIC | • aerophobic adj. Having a fear of flying in aircraft. • aerophobic adj. Disliking or avoiding air. • AEROPHOBIC adj. having a morbid fear of draughts or of flying. |
| ANEMOCHORE | • anemochore n. An organism that spreads by wind, as a plant with wind-borne seeds. • ANEMOCHORE n. a plant in which the fruits or seeds are dispersed by wind. |
| ARCHEOLOGY | • archeology n. (American spelling) Alternative form of archaeology. • ARCHEOLOGY n. the study of ancient human artefacts, also ARCHAEOLOGY. |
| AUXOCHROME | • auxochrome n. (Obsolete, chemistry) any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift… • AUXOCHROME n. a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye. |
| CARPOPHORE | • carpophore n. (Botany) A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some plants. • carpophore n. (Mycology) The stem of the fruiting body in higher fungi. • CARPOPHORE n. a slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants. |
| CHLORALOSE | • chloralose n. An avicide and rodenticide, also used in neuroscience and veterinary medicine as an anaesthetic and sedative. • CHLORALOSE n. a hypnotic drug used for anaesthetising animals in laboratory experiments. |
| CHROMONEMA | • chromonema n. (Genetics) The central coiled filament of a chromatid upon which the chromomeres lie. • CHROMONEMA n. the coiled filamentous core of a chromatid. |
| COANCHORED | • coanchored v. Simple past tense and past participle of coanchor. • COANCHOR v. to present televised news reports jointly. |
| COAUTHORED | • coauthored v. Simple past tense and past participle of coauthor. • co-authored v. Simple past tense and past participle of co-author. • COAUTHOR v. to write together. |
| COLEORHIZA | • coleorhiza n. A sheath-like structure found in a monocotyledon plant seed that acts as a protective covering enclosing the radicle. • COLEORHIZA n. a sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle, also COLEORRHIZA. |
| COMANCHERO | • Comanchero n. (Historical) A Hispanic trader of New Mexico who made a living by trading with the nomadic plains tribes… • COMANCHERO n. (Spanish) in the 19th century, a person who traded with the Plains Indians. |
| HOMOCERCAL | • homocercal adj. (Ichthyology) Describing the symmetric tail of a fish that has two lobes extending from the end of the… • HOMOCERCAL adj. of fishes, having the upper and lower lobes of the tailfin alike. |
| OCHRACEOUS | • ochraceous adj. Ochre-colored. • OCHRACEOUS adj. containing or resembling ochre, also OCHERISH, OCHEROID, OCHEROUS, OCHERY, OCHREOUS, OCHREY, OCHROID, OCHROUS, OCHRY. |
| OCTAHEDRON | • octahedron n. (Geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and… • OCTAHEDRON n. (Greek) a solid bounded by eight plane faces, also OCTOHEDRON. |
| ORTHOCAINE | • orthocaine n. Methyl m-amino-p-hydroxybenzoate, a fine white crystalline powder used as an anesthetic on open wounds. • ORTHOCAINE n. a white crystalline substance used as a local anaesthetic. |
| ORTHOCLASE | • orthoclase n. (Mineralogy) Potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi3O8, a common feldspar of igneous, plutonic, and metamorphic… • ORTHOCLASE n. common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. |