| AMPELOGRAPHY | • ampelography n. (Botany) The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis. • AMPELOGRAPHY n. the study of grapevines. |
| APOTROPAISMS | • APOTROPAISM n. a magical practice averting evil. |
| APPROXIMATED | • approximated v. Simple past tense and past participle of approximate. • approximated adj. Calculated by approximation. • APPROXIMATE v. to come close to. |
| APPROXIMATES | • approximates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of approximate. • APPROXIMATE v. to come close to. |
| KARYOMAPPING | • karyomapping n. (Genetics) The production of a karyomap. • KARYOMAPPING n. a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives. |
| MALAPROPISMS | • malapropisms n. Plural of malapropism. • MALAPROPISM n. a humorous misuse of a word, also MALAPROP. |
| MALAPROPISTS | • malapropists n. Plural of malapropist. • MALAPROPIST n. one who commits malapropisms. |
| PANPHARMACON | • panpharmacon n. (Dated) A medicine for all diseases; a panacea. • PANPHARMACON n. a universal remedy. |
| PARALIPOMENA | • paralipomena n. (Literary analysis) The different text variants or text witnesses researched when creating a critical edition. • paralipomena n. Supplementary literary material. • PARALIPOMENON n. a thing added as a supplement to a main text, also PARALEIPOMENON. |
| PARAMORPHINE | • paramorphine n. (Toxicology) A poisonous alkaloid, also known as thebaine, obtained from opium; not used in medicine;… • PARAMORPHINE n. a poisonous white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from opium and used in medicine, aka thebaine. |
| PARAMORPHISM | • paramorphism n. (Geology) a change in the physical structure of a mineral without any chemical change. • PARAMORPHISM n. the state of being a paramorph. |
| PARAMORPHOUS | • paramorphous adj. (Mineralogy) Relating to, or exhibiting, paramorphism. • PARAMORPHOUS adj. of or like a paramorph. |
| PARAPHIMOSES | • paraphimoses n. Plural of paraphimosis. • PARAPHIMOSIS n. strangulation of the glans penis by constriction of the prepuce. |
| PARAPHIMOSIS | • paraphimosis n. A medical condition where the foreskin becomes trapped behind the glans. • PARAPHIMOSIS n. strangulation of the glans penis by constriction of the prepuce. |
| PHARMACOPEIA | • pharmacopeia n. Alternative form of pharmacopoeia. • PHARMACOPEIA n. a book describing drugs and medicinal preparations; a stock of drugs, also PHARMACOPOEIA. |
| PHRAGMOPLAST | • phragmoplast n. (Biology) A structure that forms in plant cells during late cytokinesis and serves as a scaffold for… • PHRAGMOPLAST n. the enlarged barrel-shaped spindle that is characteristic of the later stages of plant mitosis and within which the cell plate forms. |
| PIROPLASMATA | • piroplasmata n. Plural of piroplasma. • PIROPLASMA n. a parasite causing cattle fever, aka babesia, also PIROPLASM. |
| POLYPHARMACY | • polypharmacy n. (Medicine) The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same (now especially… • POLYPHARMACY n. treatment with many medicines for same disease. |
| PROPAGANDISM | • propagandism n. The use of propaganda. • PROPAGANDISM n. the practice of propagating tenets or principles. |
| PROTOPLASMAL | • protoplasmal adj. (Cytology) Of or relating to protoplasm. • PROTOPLASMAL adj. of or like protoplasm, also PROTOPLASMATIC, PROTOPLASMIC, PROTOPLASTIC. |