| ACCULTURATIONS | • acculturations n. Plural of acculturation. • ACCULTURATION n. the assimilation, through continuous contact, of features (such as customs, beliefs, etc.) of another culture. |
| CIRCUMNUTATION | • circumnutation n. (Botany) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of… • CIRCUMNUTATION n. rotation in a nodding position, as the helical path described by the growing point of a plant. |
| CIRCUMNUTATORY | • circumnutatory adj. Circumnutating; performing or relating to circumnutation. • CIRCUMNUTATORY adj. showing circumnutation. |
| CORPUSCULARIAN | • corpuscularian adj. (Obsolete) Pertaining to or consisting of corpuscules; corpuscular. • corpuscularian adj. (Now historical) Related to the corpuscular theory; pertaining to corpuscules or atoms; atomic. • corpuscularian n. (Dated) An adherent of the corpuscular theory of chemistry. |
| CORPUSCULARITY | • corpuscularity n. The quality of being corpuscular. • CORPUSCULARITY n. the state of being corpuscular. |
| COUNTERFACTUAL | • counterfactual adj. Contrary to known or agreed facts; untrue. • counterfactual adj. Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world. • counterfactual n. A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts. |
| CUCURBITACEOUS | • cucurbitaceous adj. Pertaining to the gourd family, including cucumbers, pumpkins etc. • CUCURBITACEOUS adj. resembling a cucumber or a squash. |
| CURVACEOUSNESS | • curvaceousness n. The state or characteristic of being curvaceous. • CURVACEOUSNESS n. the state of being curvaceous, also CURVACIOUSNESS. |
| CURVACIOUSNESS | • CURVACIOUSNESS n. the state of being curvacious, also CURVACEOUSNESS. |
| MACRONUCLEUSES | • MACRONUCLEUS n. a relatively large densely staining nucleus of most ciliate protozoans that is derived from micronuclei and controls various nonreproductive functions. |
| MACROSTRUCTURE | • macrostructure n. The gross structure of a material or tissue as visible to the unaided eye or at very low levels of magnification. • macrostructure n. (Metallurgy) The gross structure of a pure metal or alloy, as revealed by magnifications of 10X or less. • MACROSTRUCTURE n. the structure (as of metal, a body part, or the soil) revealed by visual examination with little or no magnification. |
| OUTRECUIDANCES | • OUTRECUIDANCE n. (Scott) presumption or overweening. |
| PORTULACACEOUS | • portulacaceous adj. (Botany) Of or relating to the family Portulacaceae of plants including the spring beauty. • PORTULACACEOUS adj. belonging to the leek family. |
| RANUNCULACEOUS | • ranunculaceous adj. (Botany) Of or pertaining to buttercups. • RANUNCULACEOUS adj. pertaining to or like buttercups; belonging to buttercup family of plants. |
| STERCULIACEOUS | • sterculiaceous adj. (Botany) Of or relating to the family Sterculiaceae (a former name for Malvaceae) of polypetalous exogenous… • STERCULIACEOUS adj. belonging to the Sterculiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of plants that includes cacao and cola. |