| APOCRYPHON | • APOCRYPHON n. a hidden or secret thing. |
| APOMORPHIA | • apomorphia n. (Pharmacology) apomorphine. • APOMORPHIA n. an alkaloid prepared by dehydrating morphine, also APOMORPHINE. |
| APOSTROPHE | • apostrophe n. (Orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a… • apostrophe n. (Rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. • APOSTROPHE n. the addressing of a personified thing rhetorically. |
| 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. |
| COPROPHAGY | • coprophagy n. The eating of feces. • COPROPHAGY n. feeding on dung. |
| OPOTHERAPY | • opotherapy n. Organotherapy. • OPOTHERAPY n. treatment by administration of extracts of animal organs, esp. ductless glands. |
| PHONOGRAPH | • phonograph n. A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe. • phonograph n. (Britain, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records. • phonograph n. (North America, historical) A record player. |
| PHOTOGRAPH | • photograph n. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated… • photograph v. (Transitive, intransitive) To take a photograph (of). • photograph v. (Transitive, figurative) To fix permanently in the memory etc. |
| PROTOPATHY | • PROTOPATHY n. first or direct experience. |
| PYROPHOBIA | • pyrophobia n. An fear or hatred of fire or flames. • PYROPHOBIA n. fear of fire. |
| SAPROTROPH | • saprotroph n. An organism that lives off dead or decaying organic material by secreting enzymes into it and then absorbing… • SAPROTROPH n. any organism, esp. a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter, also SAPROBIONT. |
| TOPOGRAPHS | • topographs n. Plural of topograph. • TOPOGRAPH n. a type of X-ray photograph. |
| TOPOGRAPHY | • topography n. A precise description of a place. • topography n. A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object. • topography n. The features themselves; terrain. |