| APOGEOTROPISM | • apogeotropism n. (Botany) An apogeotropic tendency. • APOGEOTROPISM n. bending up or away from the ground. |
| APPORTIONMENT | • apportionment n. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned. • apportionment n. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states. • apportionment n. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states. |
| APPROXIMATION | • approximation n. The act, process or result of approximating. • approximation n. (Mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose. • approximation n. (Medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured. |
| HAPTOTROPISMS | • HAPTOTROPISM n. curving in response to touch, as a tendril. |
| IMPROPRIATION | • impropriation n. The act of impropriating; putting an ecclesiastical benefice or tithes in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation. • impropriation n. A benefice, tithe etc. that has been put in lay hands. • IMPROPRIATION n. the act of impropriating. |
| IMPROPRIATORS | • impropriators n. Plural of impropriator. • IMPROPRIATOR n. a layman who is in possession of a benefice or its revenues. |
| LYMPHOTROPHIC | • lymphotrophic adj. Misspelling of lymphotropic. • LYMPHOTROPHIC adj. of a virus, preferentially infecting lymphocytes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |