| ABIOTROPHY | • abiotrophy n. (Medicine) Premature degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function… • ABIOTROPHY n. bodily or mental loss of function or degeneration for reasons unknown. |
| BATHOMETRY | • BATHOMETRY n. measurement of the depth of water. |
| BIORHYTHMS | • biorhythms n. Plural of biorhythm. • BIORHYTHM n. a periodic change in the behaviour or physiology of many animals and plants (e.g. hibernation and migration) mediated by hormones which are in turn influenced by changes in day-length. |
| BOUNTYHEDS | • BOUNTYHED n. (Spenser) bounteousness. |
| BRYOPHYTES | • bryophytes n. Plural of bryophyte. • BRYOPHYTE n. a member of the Bryophyta, one of the main groups of the vegetable kingdom, mosses and liverworts. |
| BRYOPHYTIC | • bryophytic adj. Of or pertaining to bryophytes, the green, seedless land plants that make up the division Bryophyta… • BRYOPHYTIC adj. of or like a bryophyte. |
| ERYTHORBIC | • ERYTHORBIC adj. as in erythorbic acid, a diastereoisomer of ascorbic acid. |
| EXHIBITORY | • exhibitory adj. Exhibiting; publicly showing. • EXHIBITORY adj. exhibiting; publicly showing. |
| HABILATORY | • habilatory adj. Of or pertaining to clothing. • HABILATORY adj. of or relating to clothes or dressing. |
| HOMOBLASTY | • homoblasty n. The state of being homoblastic. • HOMOBLASTY n. the state of being homoblastic, derived from similar cells. |
| HOSPITABLY | • hospitably adv. In a hospitable manner. • HOSPITABLE adv. kind to strangers. |
| HYPERBATON | • hyperbaton n. (Grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect. • hyperbaton n. (Rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing… • HYPERBATON n. the use, esp. for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in 'Bird thou never wert'. |
| HYPOBLASTS | • hypoblasts n. Plural of hypoblast. • HYPOBLAST n. the inner or lower layer of the blastoderm. |
| INHIBITORY | • inhibitory adj. That inhibits. • inhibitory adj. Of, or relating to an inhibitor. • INHIBITORY adj. tending to inhibit, also INHIBITIVE. |
| PHLEBOTOMY | • phlebotomy n. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection. • PHLEBOTOMY n. the surgical opening of a vein to draw blood. |
| PHYCOBIONT | • phycobiont n. An algal photobiont. • PHYCOBIONT n. the algal constituent of a lichen. |
| RUBYTHROAT | • rubythroat n. Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat. • RUBYTHROAT n. any of numerous species of humming birds, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections. |
| TABBYHOODS | • TABBYHOOD n. (obsolete) the state of being an old maid. |