| ANDROCEPHALOUS | • androcephalous adj. Having a human head (upon an animal’s body), like the Egyptian sphinx. • ANDROCEPHALOUS adj. with a human head. |
| AUTOTETRAPLOID | • autotetraploid adj. (Genetics) tetraploid because of the doubling of an ancestral chromosome. • autotetraploid n. Such a cell or organism. • AUTOTETRAPLOID n. an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement. |
| CLAUSTROPHOBES | • claustrophobes n. Plural of claustrophobe. • CLAUSTROPHOBE n. one with a fear of confined spaces. |
| FLUOROGRAPHIES | • fluorographies n. Plural of fluorography. • FLUOROGRAPHY n. the photography of the image produced on a fluorescent screen by X rays. |
| HYDROCEPHALOUS | • hydrocephalous adj. Having a swollen head. • hydrocephalous adj. (Medicine) Afflicted with hydrocephalus. • HYDROCEPHALOUS adj. suffering from hydrocephaly, also HYDROCEPHALIC. |
| MACROCEPHALOUS | • macrocephalous adj. Having a large head. • macrocephalous adj. Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the… • MACROCEPHALOUS adj. having a large head. |
| MICROCEPHALOUS | • microcephalous adj. Microcephalic. • MICROCEPHALOUS adj. small-headed, also MICROCEPHALIC. |
| NEUROPATHOLOGY | • neuropathology n. Neural pathology: The pathology of the nervous system, usually and especially in the sense of its cytopathology… • NEUROPATHOLOGY n. pathology of the nervous system. |
| ORTHOCEPHALOUS | • orthocephalous adj. Alternative form of orthocephalic. • ORTHOCEPHALOUS adj. having a skull whose breadth is between 70 and 75 per cent of its length, also ORTHOCEPHALIC. |
| OVERPOPULATING | • overpopulating v. Present participle of overpopulate. • OVERPOPULATE v. to populate too densely. |
| OVERPOPULATION | • overpopulation n. (Biology, demography) An excessive number of occupants (People, animals, plants, etc.) in a particular… • OVERPOPULATION n. population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration. |
| PERLOCUTIONARY | • perlocutionary adj. Of or pertaining to perlocution. • PERLOCUTIONARY adj. relating to perlocution, the effect produced when a particular word is uttered. |
| POLYOMAVIRUSES | • polyomaviruses n. Plural of polyomavirus. |
| PORTULACACEOUS | • portulacaceous adj. (Botany) Of or relating to the family Portulacaceae of plants including the spring beauty. • PORTULACACEOUS adj. belonging to the leek family. |
| PROTOLANGUAGES | • protolanguages n. Plural of protolanguage. • proto-languages n. Plural of proto-language. • PROTOLANGUAGE n. an assumed or recorded ancestral language. |
| RHIZOCEPHALOUS | • rhizocephalous adj. Belonging to the Rhizocephala. • RHIZOCEPHALOUS adj. of or like a rhizocephalan, a cirripede parasitic on crabs. |
| SUPEROVULATION | • superovulation n. The act or process of superovulating. • SUPEROVULATION n. production of exceptional numbers of ova at one time. |
| UNPROFESSIONAL | • unprofessional adj. Unbecoming of a professional; hence inappropriate in the workplace. • unprofessional adj. Lacking a profession. • unprofessional n. One who is not a professional. |