enantiosis
A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and vice versa; affirmation by contraries.

enarthronote
Any of the suborder Enarthronota of mites in the order Oribatida.

enarthronotes
plural of enarthronote

encephalum
The brain of an insect

enchytrism
The burial of a child or a small animal in a vessel such as a pot.

enchytrisms
plural of enchytrism

encolure
The neck of a horse.

encolures
plural of encolure

encoubert
One of several species of armadillo of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, with five toes on both the fore and the hind feet.

encouberts
plural of encoubert

encrinites
plural of encrinite

encrinurid
Any trilobite in the family Encrinuridae.

encrinurids
plural of encrinurid

endbox
goalbox

endoanthropochory
endobiotic anthropochory

endobenthos
benthic organisms that live buried or burrowing in the sediment, often in the oxygenated top layer

endocommensalism
commensalism in which one organism is inside of the other. An example is a bird living in the hollow of a tree.

endocommensalisms
plural of endocommensalism

endocoprid
A dung beetle that nests and lays eggs within a ball of dung

endocoprids
plural of endocoprid

endocuticle
The inner, elastic layer of the cuticle of an insect

endocuticles
plural of endocuticle

endocytobiont
An endocytobiotic organism

endocytobionts
plural of endocytobiont

endoderm
One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce through development, the digestive system of the adult.

endoderms
plural of endoderm

endoevaporite
An organism (typically unicellular) that lives in an evaporite

endoevaporites
plural of endoevaporite

endofauna
animals from outside of an organism's immediate environment.

endogenesis
Synonym of endogeny (“growth from within”).

endoglucanase
Any glucanase/cellulase that is active within the organism that produced it.
Any glucanase/cellulase that cleaves internal glycoside bonds in a glucose polymer, as opposed to clipping off a terminal glucose from one end of a polymeric chain.

endoglucanases
plural of endoglucanase

endohelminth
Any endogenous helminth

endohelminths
plural of endohelminth

endolith
An organism (generally a small or micro-organism) living inside rocks.

endoliths
plural of endolith

endomesoderm
An embryonic blastomere that has not yet differentiated into mesoderm and endoderm, almost in the middle

endomesoderms
plural of endomesoderm

endometabolome
The complete set of endometabolites in an organism

endometabolomes
plural of endometabolome

endomyxan
Any member of the subphylum Endomyxa, sometimes considered protists, more recently usually considered chromists.

endomyxans
plural of endomyxan

endoparasite
A parasite that lives inside the body of an organism, such as a tapeworm.

endoparasites
plural of endoparasite

endopinacoderm
A surface of a sponge lined with endopinacocytes

endopinacoderms
plural of endopinacoderm

endoplast
A nucleus.

endoproct
Synonym of entoproct.

endoprocts
plural of endoproct

endopterygoid
A certain jaw bone in reptiles or fish.

endopterygoids
plural of endopterygoid

endopterygote
Any insect of the superorder Endopterygota

endopterygotes
plural of endopterygote

endoskeleta
plural of endoskeleton

endoskeleton
The internal skeleton of an animal, which in vertebrates is composed of bone and cartilage.

endoskeletons
plural of endoskeleton

endosporulator
An organism that produces endospores

endosporulators
plural of endosporulator

endosymbiogenesis
The origin of an endosymbiosis.

endotherm
An animal that maintains a constant body temperature.

endotherms
plural of endotherm

endothiodontid
Any therapsid in the family Endothiodontidae.

endothiodontids
plural of endothiodontid

endozoochory
Seed dispersal via ingestion by vertebrate animals (mostly birds and mammals).

endozoocory
Misspelling of endozoochory.

engastration
The stuffing of the remains of one animal into another animal.

englishman
Obsolete form of Englishman.

englishmen
plural of englishman

engonoceratid
Any ammonite in the family Engonoceratidae.

engonoceratids
plural of engonoceratid

enicocephalid
Any member of the family Enicocephalidae, the unique-headed bugs or gnat bugs.

enicocephalids
plural of enicocephalid

ennaton
The ninth segment of an insect.

enoploteuthid
Any squid in the family Enoploteuthidae.

enoploteuthids
plural of enoploteuthid

ensiferan
Any insect of the suborder Ensifera.

ensiferans
plural of ensiferan

entamoebid
Any member of the Entamoebidae.

entamoebids
plural of entamoebid

entellus
A small Asian monkey (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus), one of the gray langurs, having bristly hairs on the crown and the sides of the face.

enteromyxosis
A disease, typically of fish, caused by infection with parasites of the class Enteromyxum

enteroparasite
Any intestinal parasite

enteroparasites
plural of enteroparasite

enteropneust
Any member of the Enteropneusta; an acorn worm.

enteropneusts
plural of enteropneust

entoderm
Alternative form of endoderm.

entoderms
plural of entoderm

entodiniomorphid
Any member of the Entodiniomorphida.

entodiniomorphids
plural of entodiniomorphid

entoliid
Any clam in the family Entoliidae.

entoliids
plural of entoliid

entomesoderm
Misspelling of endomesoderm.

entomofauna
Insect fauna.

entomofaunae
plural of entomofauna

entomofaunas
plural of entomofauna

entomopathogenesis
The pathogenesis of insect disease

entomophagan
Any member of the Entomophaga.

entomophagans
plural of entomophagan

entoparasite
Alternative form of endoparasite.

entoparasites
plural of entoparasite

entoproct
Any member of the phylum Entoprocta, mostly sessile aquatic animals.

entoprocts
plural of entoproct

entopterygoid
A certain ventral bone of reptiles or fish

entopterygoids
plural of entopterygoid

entoptychine
Any gopher of the genus Entoptychus

entoptychines
plural of entoptychine

entozoon
Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa.

entozoons
plural of entozoon

eocrinoid
Any member of the Eocrinoidea, an extinct class of echinoderms that lived between the Early Cambrian and Late Silurian periods.

eocrinoids
plural of eocrinoid

eoderoceratid
Any member of the Eoderoceratidae.

eoderoceratids
plural of eoderoceratid

eodiscoid
Any member of the Eodiscoidea superfamily of extinct trilobites

eomysticetid
Any member of the Eomysticetidae, a family of extinct mysticetes.

eomysticetids
plural of eomysticetid

eorpid
Any member of the Eorpa genus of extinct scorpion flies

eorpids
plural of eorpid

eotetrapodiform
Any sarcopterygian fish of the clade Eotetrapodiformes

eotetrapodiforms
plural of eotetrapodiform

eotomariid
Any member of the gastropod family Eotomariidae.

eotomariids
plural of eotomariid

epaulet trevally
Synonym of duskyshoulder trevally.

epeirid
Any of the former genus Epeira (now Araneus) of spiders.

epeirids
plural of epeirid

ephedroid
A member of the order of Ephedrales.

ephedroids
plural of ephedroid

ephydriad
A dryad, a water nymph.

ephydriads
plural of ephydriad

epibenthos
benthic organisms that live on top of the sediment

epicaridean
Any isopod of the former suborder Epicaridea (now named Cymothoida)

epicarideans
plural of epicaridean

epicynodont
Any cynodont therapsid of the clade Epicynodontia

epicynodonts
plural of epicynodont

epigeneses
plural of epigenesis

epigenesis
The theory that an organism develops by differentiation from an unstructured egg rather than by simple enlarging of something preformed.
Changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation.

epigenetics
The study of the processes involved in the genetic development of an organism, especially the activation and deactivation of genes.
The study of heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in DNA sequence.

epigoni
plural of epigonus