| DIATROPISM | • diatropism n. (Biology) The growth or movement of a plant or animal in a direction perpendicular to a stimulus. • diatropism n. (Organic chemistry) An orthogonal arrangement of groups of atoms within a molecule, often associated with aromaticity. • diatropism n. The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of dissimilarity from early childhood protective… |
| INCOMPARED | • incompared adj. (Obsolete) peerless; incomparable. • INCOMPARED adj. (Spenser) peerless; incomparable. |
| MADREPORIC | • madreporic adj. Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora. • MADREPORIC adj. relating to madrepore, a kind of coral, also MADREPORAL. |
| MEROPIDANS | • meropidans n. Plural of meropidan. • MEROPIDAN n. one of a family of birds that includes bee-eaters. |
| MYRIAPODAN | • MYRIAPODAN adj. of or like a myriapod. |
| PADRONISMS | • PADRONISM n. a system of work controlled by a padrone. |
| PALINDROME | • palindrome n. A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards… • palindrome n. (By extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction. • palindrome n. (By extension) A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards. |
| PARAMEDICO | • PARAMEDICO n. a paradoctor, a doctor who parachutes to patients in remote areas, also PARAMEDIC, PARAMEDICAL. |
| PARAPODIUM | • parapodium n. (Zoology) Any of the paired unjointed lateral outgrowths used for locomotion by worms such as annelids. • parapodium n. (Zoology) A lateral expansion on both sides of the foot in some gastropods, often used as a swimming organ. • PARAPODIUM n. a jointless muscular lateral appendage occurring in pairs in polychaete worms. |
| PRIMORDIAL | • primordial adj. First, earliest or original. • primordial adj. (Biology) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium. • primordial adj. Primeval. |
| PRISMATOID | • prismatoid n. (Mathematics) Any polyhedron whose vertices all lie in either of two parallel planes. • PRISMATOID n. a body that approaches to the form of a prism. |
| PRISMOIDAL | • prismoidal adj. Having the form of a prismoid. • PRISMOIDAL adj. having the form of a prismoid. |
| PROCLAIMED | • proclaimed v. Simple past tense and past participle of proclaim. • PROCLAIM v. to make known. |
| PYRAMIDION | • pyramidion n. The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk or pyramid. • PYRAMIDION n. the small pyramidal apex of an obelisk. |
| PYRAMIDONS | • pyramidons n. Plural of pyramidon. • PYRAMIDON n. an organ-stop with pipes like inverted pyramids. |