| BRYOPHYTE | • bryophyte n. (Botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts… • BRYOPHYTE n. a member of the Bryophyta, one of the main groups of the vegetable kingdom, mosses and liverworts. |
| CHEMITYPY | • chemitypy n. (Historical) A process for obtaining casts in relief from an engraved zinc plate. A fusible metal is… • CHEMITYPY n. printing by chemitype, any chemical process for obtaining impressions from an engraving. |
| CRYOPHYTE | • cryophyte n. (Botany) Any plant whose buds overwinter below ground. • cryophyte n. (Botany) Any plant that grows on ice or snow. • CRYOPHYTE n. an organism esp. an alga or moss that grows on snow or ice. |
| HELIOTYPY | • heliotypy n. A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which… • HELIOTYPY n. a photomechanical process in which the gelatine relief is itself used to print from. |
| HYLOPHYTE | • HYLOPHYTE n. a woodland plant. |
| HYPERGAMY | • hypergamy n. Act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself. • HYPERGAMY n. the marriage of a man to a woman of lower status. |
| HYPERNYMS | • hypernyms n. Plural of hypernym. • HYPERNYM n. a word representing a class of words or things, e.g. dog. |
| HYPERNYMY | • hypernymy n. (Semantics) The semantic relation between hypernyms; the quality of being hypernymous. • HYPERNYMY n. the state of being a hypernym, a word representing a class of words or things. |
| HYPNOGENY | • hypnogeny n. (Archaic) induction of hypnotic trance. • HYPNOGENY n. production of the hypnotic state, also HYPNOGENESIS. |
| HYPOPHYGE | • HYPOPHYGE n. the curve where a column merges in its base or capital. |
| HYPOSTYLE | • hypostyle adj. (Architecture) Having a roof supported on a row of columns. • hypostyle n. (Architecture) A building or chamber whose roof is supported on a row of columns. • HYPOSTYLE adj. having a roof supported by columns. |
| PHYLOGENY | • phylogeny n. (Systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades. • phylogeny n. (Systematics, informal) A phylogenetic diagram. • phylogeny n. The historical development of a human social or racial group. |
| PHYTOGENY | • phytogeny n. (Biology) phytogenesis. • PHYTOGENY n. the doctrine of the generation of plants. |
| SYMPHYSES | • symphyses n. Plural of symphysis. • SYMPHYSIS n. the union or growing together of bones. |
| ZYGOPHYTE | • zygophyte n. (Botany, obsolete) Any plant of a formerly proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta… • ZYGOPHYTE n. a plant that reproduces by the union of two similar cells. |