| 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. |
| BARYSPHERE | • barysphere n. The central core of the Earth (or similar planets). • BARYSPHERE n. the area of earth underlying the lithosphere. |
| BODYSHAPER | • BODYSHAPER n. an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc. |
| 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. |
| HYGROPHOBE | • HYGROPHOBE n. a plant growing best where moisture is scanty. |
| HYPERBARIC | • hyperbaric adj. Of, relating to, or utilizing greater than normal pressure (as of oxygen). • HYPERBARIC adj. having specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. |
| HYPERBATIC | • hyperbatic adj. Of or pertaining to a hyperbaton; transposed; inverted. • HYPERBATIC adj. of or pertaining to a hyperbaton. |
| 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'. |
| HYPERBOLAE | • hyperbolae n. Plural of hyperbola. • hyperbolæ n. Plural of hyperbola. • HYPERBOLA n. a type of mathematical curve. |
| HYPERBOLAS | • hyperbolas n. Plural of hyperbola. • HYPERBOLA n. a type of mathematical curve. |
| HYPERBOLES | • hyperboles n. Plural of hyperbole. • HYPERBOLE n. (Greek) impression by extravagant exaggeration. |
| HYPERBOLIC | • hyperbolic adj. Of or relating to hyperbole. • hyperbolic adj. Using hyperbole: exaggerated. • hyperbolic adj. (Vision, of a perceived color) Having a saturation exceeding 100%. |
| HYPERCUBES | • hypercubes n. Plural of hypercube. • HYPERCUBE n. a figure in a space of four or more dimensions having all its sides equal and all its angles right angles. |
| PERISHABLY | • perishably adv. In a perishable manner. • PERISHABLE adv. liable to perish. |
| POLYHYBRID | • polyhybrid n. A hybrid whose parents differ in several ways. • POLYHYBRID n. a plant hybridised from many sources. |
| PYROPHOBIA | • pyrophobia n. An fear or hatred of fire or flames. • PYROPHOBIA n. fear of fire. |
| PYROPHOBIC | • pyrophobic adj. Suffering from pyrophobia; afraid of fire. • pyrophobic n. A person who is afraid of fire. • PYROPHOBIC n. one having an irrational fear of fires. |
| SHEEPBERRY | • sheepberry n. The plant Viburnum lentago, native to the northeastern and midwestern United States and southern Canada. • sheepberry n. Its edible fruit. • SHEEPBERRY n. the edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum; also, the tree itself. |