| APOSTROPHE | • apostrophe n. (Orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a… • apostrophe n. (Rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. • APOSTROPHE n. the addressing of a personified thing rhetorically. |
| OPOTHERAPY | • opotherapy n. Organotherapy. • OPOTHERAPY n. treatment by administration of extracts of animal organs, esp. ductless glands. |
| PHONOTYPER | • PHONOTYPER n. one who phonotypes, prints in phonotype. |
| PHOSPHORET | • phosphoret n. A compound of phosphorus that does not include oxygen. • PHOSPHORET n. (obsolete) a phosphide, also PHOSPHURET. |
| PHOTOGRAPH | • photograph n. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated… • photograph v. (Transitive, intransitive) To take a photograph (of). • photograph v. (Transitive, figurative) To fix permanently in the memory etc. |
| PHOTOPHORE | • photophore n. (Biology) A light-emitting organ, found in some fish and other marine animals. • photophore n. (Medicine) A form of endoscope using an electric light. • PHOTOPHORE n. a luminiferous organ. |
| PHOTOTROPE | • PHOTOTROPE n. a substance exhibiting phototropism, movement directed by light. |
| PHOTOTROPH | • phototroph n. A photoautotroph. • PHOTOTROPH n. a plant which uses light to generate energy needed to absorb nutrients. |
| PHOTOTROPY | • phototropy n. Phototropism. • PHOTOTROPY n. change of colour due to wavelength of incident light. |
| PROTOPATHY | • PROTOPATHY n. first or direct experience. |
| PROTOPHYTE | • protophyte n. (Biology) Any of various primitive organisms such as the slime molds. • PROTOPHYTE n. any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division. |
| PROTOTROPH | • prototroph n. (Biology) Any microorganism that can synthesize its nutrients from inorganic material. • PROTOTROPH n. a bacterium feeding only on inorganic matter. |
| SAPROTROPH | • saprotroph n. An organism that lives off dead or decaying organic material by secreting enzymes into it and then absorbing… • SAPROTROPH n. any organism, esp. a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter, also SAPROBIONT. |
| SPOROPHYTE | • sporophyte n. (Botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order… • SPOROPHYTE n. a spore-producing phase in plants that reproduce by metagenesis (alternating asexual and sexual reproduction). |
| TOPOGRAPHS | • topographs n. Plural of topograph. • TOPOGRAPH n. a type of X-ray photograph. |
| TOPOGRAPHY | • topography n. A precise description of a place. • topography n. A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object. • topography n. The features themselves; terrain. |
| TROOPSHIPS | • troopships n. Plural of troopship. • TROOPSHIP n. a ship for carrying troops. |
| TROPOPHYTE | • tropophyte n. (Biology) Any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought. • TROPOPHYTE n. a plant adapted to alterations of moisture and drought. |