| ACCRETION | • accretion n. The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession… • accretion n. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition. • accretion n. Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item. |
| ACCROIDES | • accroides n. Acaroid resin. • ACCROIDES n. a red alcohol-soluble resin. |
| ACROGENIC | • acrogenic adj. Alternative form of acrogenous. • ACROGENIC adj. like or relating to an acrogen, a cryptogam with a distinct permanent stem. |
| ANORECTIC | • anorectic adj. Characterised by a lack of appetite, especially as suffering from anorexia nervosa; anorexic. • anorectic adj. Causing a loss of appetite. • anorectic n. A person suffering from anorexia nervosa; an anorexic. |
| ARCCOSINE | • arccosine n. (Trigonometry) Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function. • ARCCOSINE n. a mathematical function. |
| CATEGORIC | • categoric adj. Categorical. • CATEGORIC adj. positive; absolute, also CATEGORICAL. |
| CECROPIAS | • cecropias n. Plural of cecropia. • CECROPIA n. a fast-growing tropical American tree of the mulberry family. |
| CHOLERAIC | • choleraic adj. Relating to, or resembling, cholera. • CHOLERAIC adj. relating to cholera. |
| CHOREATIC | • choreatic adj. Of or relating to chorea. • CHOREATIC adj. of or like chorea. |
| COCHAIRED | • cochaired v. Simple past tense and past participle of cochair. • co-chaired v. Simple past tense and past participle of co-chair. • COCHAIR v. to serve jointly as chairman. |
| COCINERAS | • cocineras n. Plural of cocinera. • COCINERA n. (Spanish) a cook. |
| COPRAEMIC | • copraemic adj. Alternative form of copremic. • COPRAEMIC adj. relating to copraemia, a form of blood poisoning, also COPREMIC. |
| CORTICATE | • corticate adj. Sheathed in bark or in a cortex. • corticate n. Any of the common ancestors of Plantae and Chromista (or chromalveolates or other grouping of similar organisms). • CORTICATE adj. having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part, e.g. bark, also CORTICATED. |
| COWARDICE | • cowardice n. Lack of courage. • COWARDICE n. lack of courage, also COWARDRY. |
| GEOCARPIC | • geocarpic adj. Relating to geocarpy. • GEOCARPIC adj. of fruit, ripening underground. |
| ORICALCHE | • oricalche n. Obsolete form of orichalch. • ORICALCHE n. (Spenser) a gold-coloured alloy, also ORICHALC. |
| PRECOCIAL | • precocial adj. (Zoology, of birds) Hatched from the egg already covered in down and with eyes open; capable of leaving… • PRECOCIAL adj. of or relating to birds whose young are hatched with a covering of down and can leave the nest at once to seek food. • PRECOCIAL n. a bird having such young, also PRAECOCIAL. |