| ALLUVIUM | • alluvium n. Soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain. • ALLUVIUM n. (Latin) land gained from the sea by the washing up of sand and earth, also ALLUVION. |
| BIVIUM | • bivium n. (Zoology) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite… • BIVIUM n. (Latin) in echinoderms, the two rays enclosing the madreporite. |
| COLLUVIUM | • colluvium n. (Geology) A loose accumulation of rock and soil debris at the foot of a slope. • COLLUVIUM n. (Latin) material which accumulates at the foot of a steep slope. |
| COMPLUVIUM | • compluvium n. (Architecture) A space left unroofed over the court of a dwelling in Ancient Rome, through which the… • COMPLUVIUM n. (Latin) a space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern. |
| DILUVIUM | • diluvium n. An inundation or flood; a deluge. • diluvium n. (Geology) A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding. • DILUVIUM n. (Latin) a deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc. caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice, also DILUVION. |
| EFFLUVIUM | • effluvium n. A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one. • effluvium n. A condition causing the shedding of hair. • EFFLUVIUM n. (Latin) disagreeable vapours. |
| ELUVIUM | • eluvium n. (Geology) Residual deposits of soil, dust and rock particles produced by the action of the wind. • ELUVIUM n. (Latin) an accumulation of rock debris. |
| EXUVIUM | • exuvium n. (Biology) Synonym of exuvia. • EXUVIUM n. (Latin) the moulted covering of an animal. |
| FLEROVIUM | • flerovium n. The chemical element with atomic number 114. • FLEROVIUM n. an artificially produced radioactive transuranic element. |
| ILLUVIUM | • illuvium n. (Geology) material displaced across a soil profile, from one layer to another, by the action of rainwater. • ILLUVIUM n. material removed from the soil layer by rainwater and deposited in a lower layer. |
| IMPLUVIUM | • impluvium n. (Architecture) A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from… • IMPLUVIUM n. (Latin) a rain water receptacle in Roman houses. |
| KURCHATOVIUM | • kurchatovium n. (Physics) A rejected name for rutherfordium. • KURCHATOVIUM n. a former name for rutherfordium, an artificially produced radioactive transuranic element. |
| LIXIVIUM | • lixivium n. A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes. • lixivium n. Any solution obtained by lixiviation. • LIXIVIUM n. (Latin) a solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation. |
| MENDELEVIUM | • mendelevium n. (Chemistry) A transuranic chemical element (symbol Md, formerly Mv) with atomic number 101. • MENDELEVIUM n. an unstable radioactive element discovered in 1955. |
| MOSCOVIUM | • moscovium n. The chemical element with atomic number 115. • MOSCOVIUM n. a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. |
| QUADRIVIUM | • quadrivium n. (Education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of… • QUADRIVIUM n. (Latin) a higher division of seven liberal arts studied in the Middle Ages, comprising arithmetic, music, astronomy, geometry. |
| TRIVIUM | • trivium n. (Historical, in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric. • trivium n. (Zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively. • TRIVIUM n. (Latin) a group of studies in medieval schools. |