mesotendons
plural of mesotendon

mesothele
Any of the suborder Mesothelae of spiders, with one extant family.

mesotheles
plural of mesothele

mesotherm
An animal that adjusts its body to a metabolically favourable temperature using a context-dependent balance of internal metabolically-produced heat and external-environmentally derived heat.
A plant that thrives in moderate temperatures.

mesotherms
plural of mesotherm

mesothoraces
plural of mesothorax

mesothorax
The middle of the three segments of the thorax of an insect, carrying the second pair of legs, and the forewings when present.

mesothoraxes
plural of mesothorax

mesotibia
The middle tibia of an insect (on the second pair of legs)
The middle part of the arthropod tibia

mesotibiae
plural of mesotibia

mesotroph
Any mesotrophic organism

mesotrophs
plural of mesotroph

mesozooplankton
zooplankton measuring from 0.2 to 20 millimetres

mesozooplanktons
plural of mesozooplankton

mesquite lizard
Sceloporus grammicus, a species of lizard from Mexico and the southern United States.

messan
Synonym of messet.

messans
plural of messan

messet
A dog, especially one as a pet.

messets
plural of messet

messin
A mongrel dog; a cur.

messins
plural of messin

metabolian
An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.

metabolians
plural of metabolian

metacestode
The larval stage of a tapeworm

metacestodes
plural of metacestode

metacoelom
metacoel

metacoeloms
plural of metacoelom

metacoxa
The coxa of the hind leg of an arthropod

metacoxae
plural of metacoxa

metacyst
The cystic stage of a parasite (within a host)

metacysts
plural of metacyst

metafemora
plural of metafemur

metafemur
The hind part of the arthropod femur

metafurca
The furca of the metasternum

metafurcae
plural of metafurca

metagastrula
A gastrula with a cleavage differing from that of the standard type.

metagee
A Guyanese stew of meat, fish, and dumplings with coconut and vegetables.

metaleg
Either of the two hind legs on an insect.

metalegs
plural of metaleg

metallomics
The study of the complete metallome of an organism

metaltail
Any hummingbird of the genus Metallura

metaltails
plural of metaltail

metamere
One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment or somite.

metameres
plural of metamere

metanauplii
plural of metanauplius

metanauplius
A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, having about seven pairs of appendages.

metaorganism
Any multicellular organism together with the microbes etc that it hosts

metaorganisms
plural of metaorganism

metaplasia
The conversion of one type of tissue into another.

metaplasias
plural of metaplasia

metaplasm
Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
A small particle (often nutrient) within a cell.

metaplasms
plural of metaplasm

metapleura
plural of metapleuron

metapleuron
An exoskeletal plate on each side of the metathorax of an insect

metapodeon
The seventh segment of an insect.

metapodium
The metatarsus.
The posterior lobe of the foot of some mollusks.

metaproteome
The complete set of metaproteins of an organism.

metaproteomes
plural of metaproteome

metaproteomics
The branch of molecular biology that studies the set of metaproteins of an organism

metapterygia
plural of metapterygium

metapterygium
The posterior of the three basal cartilages of the fins of ray-finned fish

metarbelid
Any member of the Metarbelidae.

metarbelids
plural of metarbelid

metascuta
plural of metascutum

metascutella
plural of metascutellum

metascutellum
The hind part of the arthropod scutellum.

metascutum
The scutum of the metathorax of an insect

metasome
A segment of the body of an animal, generally the rearmost one.
A replacing mineral where one mineral grows in size at the expense of another.

metasomes
plural of metasome

metastatogenesis
The development of metastases.

metastegostom
The second-posteriormost section of the stegostom.

metastomium
That portion of the head of an annelid situated behind the mouth

metatarsomere
A segment of an insect metatarsus

metatarsomeres
plural of metatarsomere

metatexite
A migmatite with pronounced parallel layering due to transposition and progressive deformation.

metatexites
plural of metatexite

metatherians
plural of metatherian

metathoraces
plural of metathorax

metathorax
The hindmost of the three sections of the thorax of an insect, carrying the posterior pair of legs and the hindwings when present.

metathoraxes
plural of metathorax

metatibia
The hind part of the arthropod tibia

metatibiae
plural of metatibia

metatrochanter
Synonym of metafemur.

metatrochanters
plural of metatrochanter

metaviriome
A metagenomic viriome

metaviriomes
plural of metaviriome

metavirome
A virome of metaviruses

metaviromes
plural of metavirome

metazone
The posterior zone of the pronotum in an insect of the family Acrididae or Gryllidae.

metazones
plural of metazone

metazonite
The posterior portion of an invertebrate diplosomite.

metazooplankton
metazoan zooplankton

metemgee
Alternative form of metagee.

metepimera
plural of metepimeron

metepimeron
The epimeron of an insect's metathorax

metepimerons
plural of metepimeron

methies
plural of methy

methodists
plural of methodist

methy
The burbot.

metofluthrin
A pyrethroid used as an insect repellent.

mewnicorn
Synonym of caticorn.

mewnicorns
plural of mewnicorn

miacid
Any member of the Miacidae family of extinct mammals.

miacids
plural of miacid

miaower
A cat that miaows.

miaowers
plural of miaower

miasis
Misspelling of myiasis.

michelinocerid
Any member of the Michelinocerida (also known as Orthocerida) order of cephalopods.

michelinocerids
plural of michelinocerid

micraner
An unusually small male ant.

micraners
plural of micraner

microaerophile
An organism, especially an aerobic bacterium, that lives and thrives in environments low in oxygen.

microaerophiles
plural of microaerophile

microalbinuria
Misspelling of microalbuminuria.

microanimal
A microscopic animal; an animalcule.

microanimals
plural of microanimal

microbat
Any of the small bats in the suborder Yangochiroptera.

microbats
plural of microbat

microbenthos
benthic organisms that are less than .1 mm in size and thus microscopic.

microconidia
plural of microconidium

microconidium
A relatively small conidium, but especially the smaller of a pair of conidia in the same organism

microcrustacean
A very small crustacean

microcrustaceans
plural of microcrustacean

microcrystallography
crystallography of microcrystals using very fine X-ray beams

microendolith
Any microscopic endolith

microendoliths
plural of microendolith

microfacies
The composition, features, or appearance of a portion of a facies small enough to be examined in thin sections, or in rock samples of similar size.

microfauna
The smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc.

microfaunae
plural of microfauna

microfaunas
plural of microfauna

microfilaria
The very small larva of a filarial worm.

microfilariae
plural of microfilaria

microflora
Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.

microflorae
plural of microflora

microfloras
plural of microflora

microgastroid
Any of the subfamily Microgastrinae of wasps.

microgastroids
plural of microgastroid

microgenome
The genome of a microbiota

microgenomes
plural of microgenome

microgenomics
The genomics of microgenomes

microhelices
plural of microhelix

microhelix
A microscopic helix

microinfauna
Any infauna that are too small to be seen with the naked eye.

microinsect
A very small insect

microinsects
plural of microinsect

microinvertebrate
An invertebrate of microscopic size.

microinvertebrates
plural of microinvertebrate