| DIATROPISM | • diatropism n. (Biology) The growth or movement of a plant or animal in a direction perpendicular to a stimulus. • diatropism n. (Organic chemistry) An orthogonal arrangement of groups of atoms within a molecule, often associated with aromaticity. • diatropism n. The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of dissimilarity from early childhood protective… |
| 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. |
| DIREMPTION | • diremption n. (Rare) a ripping apart; a forceful sundering. • DIREMPTION n. separation into two. |
| DISIMPROVE | • disimprove v. (Transitive, rare) to make worse. • disimprove v. (Intransitive, rare) to deteriorate. • disimprove v. (Informal, rare, influenced by the German verb verschlimmbessern) To try to make something better but… |
| EPIDERMOID | • epidermoid adj. Similar to epidermal tissue but not histologically identical, or possibly not so (to the extent known… • epidermoid n. (Pathology) An epidermoid cyst. • EPIDERMOID adj. like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis. |
| IMPRISONED | • imprisoned v. Simple past tense and past participle of imprison. • IMPRISON v. to confine in a prison. |
| IMPROVISED | • improvised adj. Created by improvisation; impromptu; unrehearsed. • improvised v. Simple past tense and past participle of improvise. • IMPROVISE v. to compose and recite, or perform, without preparation. |
| PREHOMINID | • prehominid n. Any evolutionary ancestor of the hominids. • PREHOMINID adj. preceding the evolution of hominids. • PREHOMINID n. an ancestor of hominids. |
| PRIMORDIAL | • primordial adj. First, earliest or original. • primordial adj. (Biology) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium. • primordial adj. Primeval. |
| PRIMORDIUM | • primordium n. (Anatomy) An aggregation of cells that is the first stage in the development of an organ. • PRIMORDIUM n. (Latin) the first discernible rudiment. |
| PRISMATOID | • prismatoid n. (Mathematics) Any polyhedron whose vertices all lie in either of two parallel planes. • PRISMATOID n. a body that approaches to the form of a prism. |
| PRISMOIDAL | • prismoidal adj. Having the form of a prismoid. • PRISMOIDAL adj. having the form of a prismoid. |
| PYRAMIDION | • pyramidion n. The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk or pyramid. • PYRAMIDION n. the small pyramidal apex of an obelisk. |