| APOGEOTROPISM | • apogeotropism n. (Botany) An apogeotropic tendency. • APOGEOTROPISM n. bending up or away from the ground. |
| HAPTOTROPISMS | • HAPTOTROPISM n. curving in response to touch, as a tendril. |
| IMPROPRIATORS | • impropriators n. Plural of impropriator. • IMPROPRIATOR n. a layman who is in possession of a benefice or its revenues. |
| MICROFLOPPIES | • microfloppies n. Plural of microfloppy. • micro-floppies n. Plural of micro-floppy. • micro␣floppies n. Plural of micro floppy. |
| MISPROPORTION | • misproportion v. (Transitive) To give the wrong proportions to. • MISPROPORTION v. to proportion wrongly. |
| MORPHOTROPIES | • MORPHOTROPY n. the effect on crystalline form of the addition or substitution of an element or radical. |
| OPHIOMORPHOUS | • ophiomorphous adj. Having the form of a snake. • OPHIOMORPHOUS adj. snakelike, also OPHIOMORPHIC. |
| PAEDOMORPHISM | • paedomorphism n. Alternative spelling of pedomorphism. • PAEDOMORPHISM n. retention in the adult of infantile or juvenile characters, also PAEDOMORPHOSIS. |
| PERISPOMENONS | • PERISPOMENON n. a word having a circumflex accent on the final syllable. |
| PHOTOTROPISMS | • phototropisms n. Plural of phototropism. • PHOTOTROPISM n. movement directed by light. |
| PITYROSPORUMS | • PITYROSPORUM n. a yeastlike fungus which can cause pityriasis. |
| PLAGIOTROPISM | • plagiotropism n. (Biology) The growth of a plant at an orientation to the angle of a stimulus. • PLAGIOTROPISM n. the tendency to grow at an oblique or horizontal angle. |
| PLEIOTROPISMS | • pleiotropisms n. Plural of pleiotropism. • PLEIOTROPISM n. the state of being pleiotropic, having an effect simultaneously on more than one character in the offspring. |
| PLEOMORPHISMS | • pleomorphisms n. Plural of pleomorphism. • PLEOMORPHISM n. polymorphism; the occurrence of two or more structural forms during a life cycle. |
| POLYMORPHISMS | • polymorphisms n. Plural of polymorphism. • POLYMORPHISM n. the circumstance in which two minerals with different crystalline structures have identical chemical compositions, e.g. diamond and graphite. |
| PSEUDOMORPHIC | • pseudomorphic adj. Of or pertaining to a pseudomorph or to pseudomorphism. • PSEUDOMORPHIC adj. of or like a pseudomorph, also PSEUDOMORPHOUS. |
| PYROMORPHITES | • pyromorphites n. Plural of pyromorphite. • PYROMORPHITE n. a green, brown, or yellow lead ore. |
| TROPHOTROPISM | • trophotropism n. The movements of the organs in a growing plant, as towards nutrient substances, induced by the chemical… • TROPHOTROPISM n. direction of growth by nutritional factors. |