| CLADISM | • cladism n. A form of systematics based on hierarchies that can be represented by branching cladograms. • CLADISM n. classification by clades. |
| COSMIDS | • cosmids n. Plural of cosmid. • COSMID n. a large plasmid used as a vector used in cloning. |
| COSMOID | • cosmoid adj. (Biology, of a fish scale) Containing a layer of cosmine. • COSMOID adj. describing the scale structure of e.g. lungfish. |
| DECIMES | • decimes n. Plural of decime. • décimes n. Plural of décime. • DECIME n. (historical) a former unit of currency in France, 1/10 of a franc. |
| DICTUMS | • dictums n. Plural of dictum. • DICTUM n. (Latin) an authoritative statement. |
| DISOMIC | • disomic adj. Having one or more chromosomes present twice, but without having the entire genome doubled. • disomic adj. In allotetraploids, relating to inheritance that involves pairing of homologous chromosomes from the… • disomic n. Such an organism. |
| MEDICKS | • medicks n. Plural of medick. • medicks n. Obsolete spelling of medics (“(obsolete) the science of medicine”). • MEDICK n. a clover-like plant. |
| MEDICOS | • medicos n. Plural of medico. • MEDICO n. (colloquial) a doctor, a medical student, also MEDIC. |
| MISCODE | • miscode v. To code incorrectly. • miscode n. A miscoding. • MISCODE v. to code wrongly. |
| MISCUED | • miscued v. Simple past tense and past participle of miscue. • MISCUE v. to make a faulty stroke in billiards. |
| MUCOIDS | • mucoids n. Plural of mucoid. • MUCOID n. a substance like mucus, found in connective tissue. |
| MUNDICS | • mundics n. Plural of mundic. • MUNDIC n. iron pyrites. |
| MUSCIDS | • muscids n. Plural of muscid. • MUSCID n. a member of the housefly family. |
| MUSCOID | • muscoid n. (Zoology) Any fly in the superfamily Muscoidea. • muscoid n. (Loosely) Any fly in the section Schizophora. • muscoid n. (Botany, obsolete) Any moss-like flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but… |