| APPENDICULARIAN | • appendicularian adj. (Zoology) Pertaining to the class Appendicularia of tailed tunicates. • appendicularian n. (Zoology) A member of this class. • APPENDICULARIAN n. a member of the Appendicularia, a genus of ascidians. |
| CAPPARIDACEOUS | • capparidaceous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the family Capparidaceae (preferred: Capparaceae) of capers and close relatives. • CAPPARIDACEOUS adj. of the Capparidaceae family of plants, related to the crucifers, and including the caper. |
| DISAPPEARANCE | • disappearance n. The action of disappearing or vanishing. • DISAPPEARANCE n. the act of disappearing. |
| DISAPPEARANCES | • disappearances n. Plural of disappearance. • DISAPPEARANCE n. the act of disappearing. |
| LAMPADEPHORIA | • LAMPADEPHORIA n. a foot race with lighted torches, esp. a relay race in which torch is passed on, also LAMPADEDROMY. |
| LAMPADEPHORIAS | • LAMPADEPHORIA n. a foot race with lighted torches, esp. a relay race in which torch is passed on, also LAMPADEDROMY. |
| MALAPPROPRIATED | • malappropriated v. Simple past tense and past participle of malappropriate. • MALAPPROPRIATE v. to misuse or misappropriate. |
| PARALLELEPIPEDA | • PARALLELEPIPEDA n. solid figures bounded by six parallelograms, opposite pairs being identical and parallel (plural of parallelipedon*, which has 16 letters). |
| PARALLELOPIPEDA | • PARALLELOPIPEDA plural of parallelopipedon* (which has sixteen letters), a solid figure bounded by six parallelograms, opposite pairs being identical and parallel. |
| PARAPODIA | • parapodia n. Plural of parapodium. • PARAPODIUM n. a jointless muscular lateral appendage occurring in pairs in polychaete worms. |
| PARAPODIAL | • parapodial adj. Pertaining to the parapodium. • PARAPODIAL adj. relating to a parapodium, one of the lateral appendages of an annelid. |
| PREADAPTATION | • preadaptation n. (Biology) An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function. • PREADAPTATION n. a character of an organism or taxonomic group that takes on a function when none previously existed or that differs from its existing function which has been derived by evolution. |
| PREADAPTATIONS | • preadaptations n. Plural of preadaptation. • PREADAPTATION n. a character of an organism or taxonomic group that takes on a function when none previously existed or that differs from its existing function which has been derived by evolution. |