| DIMORPHISM | • dimorphism n. (Biology) The occurrence within a plant of two distinct forms of any part. • dimorphism n. (Biology) The occurrence in an animal species of two distinct types of individual.
 • dimorphism n. (Geology) A property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms.
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| DYSPHEMISM | • dysphemism n. (Uncountable) The use of a word or phrase carrying negative connotations or imagery (especially one… • dysphemism n. (Countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.
 • DYSPHEMISM n. the substitution of a disagreeable or offensive expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one, e.g. The Holocaust (the dysphemism chosen by Jewish historians to replace the Nazis' ghastly euphemism, The Final Solution).
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| IMPALUDISM | • impaludism n. (Obsolete) A diseased state affecting the inhabitants of paludal, marshy areas. • IMPALUDISM n. a disease carried by insects affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas.
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| IMPOSTUMED | • impostumed v. Simple past tense and past participle of impostume. • IMPOSTUMED adj. having an impostume, an abscess, also IMPOSTHUMED.
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| MAPPEMONDS | • mappemonds n. Plural of mappemond. • MAPPEMOND n. a map of the world.
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| MEDIUMSHIP | • mediumship n. (Parapsychology) The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication… • MEDIUMSHIP n. being a medium.
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| MELAMPODES | • MELAMPODE n. (Spenser) the black hellebore. | 
| MIDSHIPMAN | • midshipman n. (Nautical) An officer of the lowest rank in several navies; especially, a trainee officer. • midshipman n. A midshipman fish.
 • MIDSHIPMAN n. formerly, the title of a young officer (originally quartered amidships) entering the navy.
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| MIDSHIPMEN | • midshipmen n. Plural of midshipman. • MIDSHIPMAN n. formerly, the title of a young officer (originally quartered amidships) entering the navy.
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| MISSTAMPED | • misstamped v. Simple past tense and past participle of misstamp. • MISSTAMP v. to stamp wrongly.
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| PLASMODESM | • plasmodesm n. Alternative form of plasmodesma. • PLASMODESM n. a strand of living cytoplasm connecting two cells, also PLASMODESMA.
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| PLASMODIUM | • plasmodium n. (Biology) A mass of cytoplasm, containing many nuclei, created by the aggregation of amoeboid cells… • Plasmodium prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Plasmodiidae – parasitic protozoans which include those causing malaria.
 • PLASMODIUM n. a naked mass of protoplasm with many nuclei, as in myxomycetes.
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