| ANTHOPHILOUS | • anthophilous adj. Living or growing on flowers. • ANTHOPHILOUS adj. feeding upon or living among flowers e.g. the anthophilous parrots of Tasmania. |
| ANTHROPOIDAL | • anthropoidal adj. Anthropoid. • ANTHROPOIDAL adj. like an anthropoid. |
| ANTHROPOLOGY | • anthropology n. The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method. • ANTHROPOLOGY n. the science of human beings. |
| HAPLOBIONTIC | • haplobiontic adj. (Biology) Describing a plant or fungus that has either a haploid or a diploid phase (but not both) in… • HAPLOBIONTIC adj. of or like a haplobiont, an organism living in a salt environment. |
| HAPTOGLOBINS | • haptoglobins n. Plural of haptoglobin. • HAPTOGLOBIN n. a protein that combines with free haemoglobin in the blood and prevents its filtration through the kidney. |
| HOLOPLANKTON | • holoplankton n. (Biology) Any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton. • HOLOPLANKTON n. organisms which remain as plankton throughout their whole life cycle. |
| HYPOPLASTRON | • hypoplastron n. The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles. • HYPOPLASTRON n. the plate behind the hyoplastron in a turtle's plastron. |
| METALLOPHONE | • metallophone n. Any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound. • METALLOPHONE n. an instrument like a xylophone with metal bars, the hammers being operated by hand or by means of a keyboard. |
| NONHOSPITALS | • nonhospitals n. Plural of nonhospital. |
| ODONTOPHORAL | • odontophoral adj. Relating to the odontophore. • ODONTOPHORAL adj. of or like an odontophore, the rasping apparatus in molluscs, also ODONTOPHORAN. |
| PHONOTYPICAL | • phonotypical adj. Alternative form of phonotypic. • PHONOTYPICAL adj. of or like a phonotype, a printing type of phonetic alphabet, also PHONOTYPIC. |
| PHOTOGELATIN | • photogelatin n. Gelatin, coated on a glass plate, that carries an image to be printed by the collotype process. • PHOTOGELATIN adj. as in photogelatin process, another name for collotype. |
| PHOTONUCLEAR | • photonuclear adj. (Physics) Of or relating to any nuclear reaction involving a photon. • PHOTONUCLEAR adj. relating to or caused by the incidence of radiant energy (as gamma rays) on atomic nuclei. |
| PROTHALAMION | • prothalamion n. (Literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married. • PROTHALAMION n. (Spenser) a song in honour of a marriage, also PROTHALAMIUM. |
| SULPHONATION | • sulphonation n. Alternative spelling of sulfonation. • SULPHONATION n. the act of sulphonating. |
| TAPHONOMICAL | • taphonomical adj. Alternative form of taphonomic. • TAPHONOMICAL adj. relating to taphonomy, also TAPHONOMIC. |