cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
superpredator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpredators
Etymology: From super- + predator. Sociology sense coined by American political scientist John DiIulio in 1995.
Senses: examples: text: In 1996 [DiIulio] authored an incendiary warning of a "rising tide of juvenile superpredators" [and in the National Review] "[a]ll that's left of the black community in […] urban America is deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults[.]"
ref: 2001 February 9, Vincent Schiraldi, “DiIulio needs more scrutiny”, in Star News:
text: Superpredators theoretically arise from dysfunctional homes, inadequate schools, and morally bankrupt communities.
ref: 2005, Gus Martin, Juvenile justice: process and systems:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A youth who repeatedly commits violent crimes, said to be a result of being raised without morals.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: hyperpredator
glosses: A predator that eats other predators.
superpredators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpredator
idocrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idocrases
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: vesuvianite
idocrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idocrase
stenog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stenogs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: When a girl's a young lady she's got to have a good supply of fresh skirts and clean shirt-waists. Men like to see their stenogs dressed clean and pretty.
ref: 1913, Everybody's Magazine, volume 28:
text: The very stenogs who had scorned them before wanted them now.
ref: 1925, The National Druggist, volume 55:
text: As I said before I had cased this mouse and she was pretty but I knew she was no society debutante. Probably a stenog out of work but very cute.
ref: 1940, John O'Hara, Pal Joey:
glosses: A stenographer.
stenogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stenog
overprescription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overprescriptions
Etymology: From over- + prescription.
Senses: antonyms: underprescription
glosses: Prescription of a drug more frequently than appropriate.
Related terms: word: overmedication
word: overprescribe
word: overtreatment
word: pill mill
overprescriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overprescription
nonpsychoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + psychoactive.
Senses: glosses: Not psychoactive.
chi-square distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chi-square distribution
dermabrasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜːməˌbɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: dermabrasions
Etymology: From derm- + abrasion.
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic medical procedure in which the surface of the epidermis of the skin is removed by abrasion, typically to remove scarring or sun-damaged skin.
Derived terms: microdermabrasion
postdermabrasion
Related terms: dermabrader
dermabrasive
dermabrasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermabrasion
dermabrader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermabraders
Etymology: From derm- + abrader.
Senses: glosses: A device used to perform dermabrasion.
dermabraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermabrader
bit depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit depths
Senses: examples: text: A bit depth of eight corresponds to a palette of 256 possible colours, because 2⁸ = 256.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of bits (binary digits) used to represent the colour of a single pixel.
proconsulship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proconsulships
Etymology: From proconsul + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or status of a proconsul; a proconsulate.
proconsulships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proconsulship
bit-depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit-depths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bit depth.
nuthin'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: nothin'
Senses: examples: text: Oh, sweet nuthin' / She ain't got nothing at all
ref: 1970, “Oh, Sweet Nuthin'”, in Loaded, performed by Velvet Underground:
text: “Yeah. I got a union card. You want I should show it ta ya?” “Yeah. If you would be so gracious as to indulge my wishes. […] Nuthin’ poisonal, you understand. It was just last week that a guy I used ta woik wit, who knows a guy that was married to a guy’s cousin seen dem FBI guys nab dem German spies. Ya know? So . . .”
ref: 2015, Paddy Kelly, chapter 21, in Operation Underworld, [England?]: Fiction4All, →ISBN, page 297:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
phoneward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phone + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The pet book produced, the librarian again starts phoneward, but is waylaid by the president of the student council.
ref: 1947, Lucile Foster Fargo, The library in the school:
text: In the meantime Ivor had already skated phoneward across the parquetry to hear what Nina Lecerf or some other neighbor wanted.
ref: 1974, Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the harlequins!:
text: "Dionne, one: I am seriously regretful over last night's lapse," I said, turning my head phoneward.
ref: 1997, H. B. Gilmour, Cher and Cher alike:
glosses: Towards a telephone.
redoable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From redo + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Many new functions and commands are undoable and a maximum of 30 commands are undoable and redoable.
ref: 2003, Suzanne Sayegh Thomas, Using QuarkXPress 6.0, page 87:
glosses: Capable of being redone.
redoubted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redoubt
redoubting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redoubt
calicivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caliciviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the family Caliciviridae.
caliciviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calicivirus
SDRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of synchronous dynamic random access memory.
Coordinate terms: english: random access memory
translation: random access memory
word: RAM
english: video RAM
translation: video RAM
word: VRAM
alt: dual-ported RAM
word: DP-RAM
english: dynamic RAM
translation: dynamic RAM
word: DRAM
english: fast page DRAM
translation: fast page DRAM
word: FP-DRAM
english: fast page RAM
translation: fast page RAM
word: FP-RAM
english: extended data-out DRAM
translation: extended data-out DRAM
word: EDO-DRAM
english: extended data-out RAM
translation: extended data-out RAM
word: EDO-RAM
english: Rambus DRAM
translation: Rambus DRAM
word: RDRAM
word: bubble memory
word: core memory
english: static RAM
translation: static RAM
word: SRAM
english: ferromagnetic RAM
translation: ferromagnetic RAM
word: FRAM
alt: magnetoresistive RAM
word: MRAM
english: non-volatile RAM
translation: non-volatile RAM
word: NVRAM
word: flash memory
Related terms: SDR
DDR
DDR1
DDR2
DDR3
DDR4
DDR5
GDDR
GDDR1
GDDR2
GDDR3
GDDR4
GDDR5
PVAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of polyvinyl alcohol.
MRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRAMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of magnetoresistive random access memory.
nonlitigious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + litigious.
Senses: glosses: Not litigious.
mitigative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mitigative
form: most mitigative
Etymology: From mitigate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Serving to mitigate.
Derived terms: nonmitigative
radiomitigative
unmitigative
undoability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: c. 1984, from undoable + -ity or undo + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The advantage of having a separate subclass for each kind of undoable text control is that you can make a separate decision about undoability for each instance of each kind of control.
ref: 2003, Bill Cheeseman, Cocoa recipes for Mac OS X:
glosses: Ability to be undone.
semiologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiology
semiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semiological
form: most semiological
Etymology: From semiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to semiology.
dogwatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogwatch
dog watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog watches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dogwatch.
cynomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cynomorphic
form: most cynomorphic
Etymology: From cyno- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: The company of these excellent animals in my childhood gave a kind of cynomorphic twist to my philosophy and an enjoyment of animal society...
ref: 1946, Blackwood's magazine:
text: It was especially the unburied dead whose souls were considered to be cynomorphic in the ancient world: Lilja, Dogs, p. 35.
ref: 1991, David Gordon White, Myths of the dog-man:
text: What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute, as we all know.
ref: 1993, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Hidden Life of Dogs p. 134 (First Mariner Books edition 2010)
text: 2009?, Beatrice Chandler Gesell, The Normal Child and Primary Education
A dog cannot help but be cynomorphic in his mentality and attitude.
glosses: doglike
Related terms: cynomorph
cynomorphizing
cynomorphism
Sanhedrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænˈhiː.dɹɪn/
ipa: /sænˈhi.dɹɪn/
Forms: form: Sanhedrins
form: sanhedrim
form: sanhedrin
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סַנְהֶדְרִין (sanhedrín, “Sanhedrin”), from Ancient Greek συνέδριον (sunédrion, “sitting together, hence assembly or council”). Doublet of synedrion.
Senses: glosses: An assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every major city in Israel.
glosses: The assembly of seventy-one judges sitting in Jerusalem.
Related terms: כנסת הגדולה
Sanhedrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanhedrin
psilocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ləˌsɪn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.loʊˌsɪn/
Etymology: Blend of translingual Psilocybe + -in, from Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “smooth”).
Senses: glosses: 4-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic alkaloid found in most psychedelic mushrooms.
Related terms: psilocybin
uninterred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + interred.
Senses: glosses: Not having been interred; unburied.
anywhither
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Univerbation of any + whither.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly enough, if the Chiefs be not self-motive and what we call men, but mere patient lay-figures without self-motive principle, the Government will not move anywhither; it will tumble disastrously, and jumble, round its own axis, as for many years past we have seen it do.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter III, ’’The One Institution’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
synonyms: whithersoever
coordinate_terms: everywhither
glosses: To (in the direction of) anywhere.
Algic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæl.ɡɪk/
Etymology: Blend of Allegheny + Atlantic. Coined by Henry Schoolcraft in his Algic Researches (1839) from the names of the Allegheny River and the Atlantic Ocean.
Senses: glosses: An indigenous language family of North America, comprising Wiyot, Yurok, and many Algonquian languages.
wikipedia: Allegheny River
Derived terms: Proto-Algic
philologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philology
noplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From no + place.
Senses: glosses: Nowhere.
chef d'œuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃeɪˈdɜːv(ɹə)/
ipa: /ˌʃɛd ˈəːv(ɹə)/
ipa: /ˌʃeɪ-/
ipa: /ʃɛf/
Forms: form: chefs d'œuvre
form: chef d'oeuvre
form: chef-d'œuvre
Etymology: Borrowed from French chef-d'œuvre.
Senses: examples: text: Ch‘ing Twan-hëoh... took his third degree in 1,321. He was much employed in the office of historiography, and composed the Work next mentioned and another on the Ch‘un Ts‘ëw before he felt equal to this, which is reckoned his chef d'œuvre.
ref: 1872, James Legge translating Confucius as The Ch‘un Ts‘ew, Prolegomena, Ch. iv, Sect. i, p. 139
glosses: A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one considered the greatest work of a person's career.
glosses: A work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship.
glosses: A work created in order to qualify as a master craftsman and member of a guild.
Synonyms: masterpiece
Janey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jane + -y, q.v.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Jane.
Janey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Janeys
Etymology: From Jan + -ey.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
portion control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of moderating one's diet by determining the number of calories in each serving of food, and keeping one's consumption below a predetermined number.
yardgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yard + grass.
Senses: examples: text: Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church.
ref: 1998, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen, page 150:
glosses: Grass in a lawn
examples: text: The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions.
ref: 1991, David Moresby Moore, Plant Life, page 34:
synonyms: crowfootgrass
Indian goosegrass
wiregrass
glosses: Eleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed
ground tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-tackle
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Equipment, such as anchors, cables, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
one after the other
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one after another.
teeteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more teeteringly
form: most teeteringly
Etymology: From teetering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We feel more dangerously, teeteringly close to disease and death (in a slow, rotting, swamp-induced fashion) than we did during the war in Rhodesia...
ref: 2003, Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood:
text: She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress.
ref: 2008, Suzanne White, The New Chinese Astrology:
glosses: While teetering, or as if teetering.
hiccupy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hiccupy
form: most hiccupy
form: hiccoughy
Etymology: From hiccup + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She burst into hiccupy sobs.
text: Dexter's vocals are competent enough: his timbre is thin and eternally teenaged, but he can go apeshit on the hiccupy histrionics like no one's business.
ref: 1999 August 26, Buddy Seigal, “Even Old Englishmen Still Get Wood”, in OC Weekly, retrieved 16 Jun 2009:
glosses: Characterised by hiccups.
outleap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outleaps
Etymology: From out- + leap.
Senses: glosses: A sally; flight; escape.
examples: text: The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust had evidently exhausted him.
ref: 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter XIV, page 173:
glosses: A bursting forth; an ambush; a sudden quick effort.
qualifier: estate law
glosses: A fine which is paid by a person to their lord for deserting an estate without permission.
outleap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outleaps
form: outleaping
form: outleapt
form: outleapt
form: outleaped
form: outleaped
Etymology: From out- + leap.
Senses: glosses: To leap out, as if from an ambush.
glosses: To leap beyond or farther than.
outleaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outleap
outleaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outleap
outleapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outleap
outleaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outleap
lept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Into the lake he lept his lord to ayd, / (So love the dread of daunger doth despise,) / And, of him catching hold, him strongly stayd / From drowning […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of leap
seakeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sea + keeping.
Senses: glosses: Effective operation of a ship at sea; remaining seaworthy.
postpuberty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + puberty.
Senses: glosses: After puberty.
Synonyms: postpubertal
prepuberty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + puberty.
Senses: glosses: Before puberty.
Synonyms: prepubertal
indignancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indignancies
Etymology: From indignant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: indignation
delint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delints
form: delinting
form: delinted
form: delinted
Etymology: From de- + lint.
Senses: glosses: To remove lint from.
Derived terms: delinter
delints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delint
delinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delint
delinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delint
delinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delinters
Etymology: From delint + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine or tool that removes lint.
delinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delinter
let's see
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: let us see
Senses: examples: text: Let's see... I don't know if that would work.
text: Let's see. What should I make for dinner tonight?
glosses: used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, but allowing hearer to participate
Synonyms: sense: filled pause
word: let me see
cat-harpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat-harping
cat-harping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-harpings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so as to give freer sweep to the yards.
Pichilemo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pichilemu.
Deng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʌŋ/
/dɛŋ/
Forms: form: Teng
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 鄧／邓 (Dèng).
Senses: examples: text: Think of the foam pie a protestor tried to throw in Rupert Murdoch’s face, halted by his then-wife Wendi Deng.
ref: 2019 May 21, Luke McGee, “Right-wing British politicians are having milkshakes thrown over them. Here’s why”, in CNN:
glosses: A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.
Derived terms: Dengian
Dengism
Dengist
Dengoid
cendol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cendols
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Balinese ᬘᬾᬦ᭄ᬤᭀᬮ᭄ (céndol, “rice or sago syrup”) or Javanese ꦕꦺꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦴꦭ꧀ (cèndhol, “protuberant”), from Old Javanese ceṇḍol.
First attested in the Tantri Demung found at Sidemen Karangasem district in Bali, 1728 AD, as ᬘᬾᬦ᭄ᬤᭀᬮ᭄ (céndol).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Balinese and Javanese sweet made with rice flour or sago noodles and coconut milk
wikipedia: id:Kidung Tantri Demung
lapsang souchong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapsang souchongs
Etymology: From Cantonese 立山小種 /立山小种 (laap⁶ saan¹ siu² zung², literally “Mt. Li (Lapu) sub-variety”).
Senses: synonyms: lapsang
glosses: A variety of smoked black tea (Camellia sinensis), originally from the Wuyi region of the Fujian province of southern China.
Related terms: pouchong
souchong
nonepidural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From non- + epidural.
Senses: glosses: Not epidural.
creatorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From creator + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a creator.
suffixable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suffix + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being added as a suffix.
prefixable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prefix + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being added as a prefix.
yanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæŋkɚ/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yankers
Etymology: From yank + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He's a yanker of braids, a tousler of bangs […]
ref: 1991, Lindsley, The Prospect of Detachment, page 62:
glosses: Someone who yanks, or gives a sudden hard pull
examples: text: "Ay, billy, that is a yanker !" said Tam aside : " When ane is gaun to tell a lie, there's naething like telling a plumper at aince, and being done wi't
ref: 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, page 330:
glosses: A brazen lie
glosses: Someone who pranks someone, who yanks chains, such as with crank calls.
Synonyms: puller
Related terms: yankee
pull someone's chain
yankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yanker
yarmelke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarmelkes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
ytterbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ytterby + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Gadolinite: a black, vitreous mineral consisting primarily of silicates of various rare earths including ytterbium
Synonyms: gadolinite
ytterite
zoophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + -philism.
Senses: examples: text: Zoophilism bears witness to a new human being, one who no longer fears nature.
ref: 2002, Dario Martinelli, How Musical Is a Whale?, page 76:
glosses: An affection for non-human animals
examples: text: They make the interesting suggestion that since cattle are rare in Kigezi christyi has had to abandon its zoophilism and become anthropophilic.
ref: 1951, Meillon de Botha, “Species and varieties of malaria vectors in Africa and their bionomics”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 421:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A preference of a parasite or vector to feed on non-human animals
glosses: Zoophilia, a sexual inclination towards bestiality
yacca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaccas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish yaca, from Taíno.
Senses: glosses: Either of two large evergreens of the West Indies, Podocarpus coriaceus and Podocarpus purdieanus.
yacca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaccas
form: yacka
form: yakka
Etymology: Transferred sense from Kaurna yagu (“pine gum”), referring to the resinous exudation from yacca trunks.
Senses: glosses: Any of the various Australian perennial flowering plants of the genus Xanthorrhoea.
Synonyms: grasstree
grass tree
blackboy
yaccas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yacca
yeshivah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeshivahs
form: yeshivoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yeshiva.
youth-on-age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the way young plantlets sprout from the middle of older leaves.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple.
ref: 1972, Hazel Heckman, Island Year, page 132:
glosses: A perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii
Synonyms: sense: Tolmiea menziesii
word: hedge nettle
sense: Tolmiea menziesii
word: piggyback plant
sense: Tolmiea menziesii
word: thousand mothers
scorpionweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scorpion + weed.
Senses: examples: text: The name scorpionweed comes from the curling habit of the blossoming flower heads which somewhat resemble the flexed tail of a scorpion in striking position.
ref: 1985, Natt Noyes Dodge, Jeanne R. Janish, Flowers of the Southwest deserts, page 109:
text: Lyall's scorpionweed is closely related to the more common species silky scorpionweed (Phacelia sericea (Graham) A. Gray) and was once considered a variety of that species.
ref: 2001, Linda Kershaw, Rare vascular plants of Alberta, page 184:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Phacelia.
Synonyms: phacelia
insultathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insultathons
Etymology: From insult + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: Here's a repeat of two halfhour episodes back to back featuring Vint (Ken Berry) and Naomi's (Dorothy Lyman) wedding and the usual insultathon among Ed (Harvey Korman) Mama (Vicki Lawrence), Ellen (Betty White) and Eunice (Carol Burnett).
ref: 1983 August 11, “Cops vs. gangs basketball on 'Hill Street Blues'”, in Sumter Daily Item, page 6D:
glosses: A vigorous, lengthy exchange of insults.
Synonyms: insultfest
insultathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insultathon
yottabit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yottabits
Etymology: From yotta- + bit.
Senses: examples: text: Assuming a steady traffic growth similar to that created by the Internet over the last 3 years, we could actually be consuming a yottabit of bandwidth by the year 2015!
ref: 2000, Roberto Saracco et al., The Disappearance of Telecommunications, →ISBN, page 38:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 zettabits.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a yobibit.
Synonyms: Ybit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: zettabit
Related terms: yobibyte
yottabyte
yottabits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yottabit
lyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lynes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of line.
examples: text: Nor any weaver, which his work doth boast
In diaper, in damask, or in lyne,
Might in their diverse cunning ever dare
With this so curious net-work to compare.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of linen.
Teegeeack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtiːɡi.æk/
Etymology: From the works of L. Ron Hubbard, of unknown origin. Perhaps after Terra and Gaia.
Senses: examples: text: He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb on the principal volcanoes […]
ref: 1968, L. Ron Hubbard, OT III (manuscript); republished as “OT III Scholarship Page”, in David S. Touretzky, editor, Secrets of Scientology, 1997, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023:
text: The church believes that 75 million years ago, the leader of the Galactic Federation, Xenu, solved an overpopulation problem by freezing the excess people in a compound of alcohol and glycol and transporting them by spaceship to Teegeeack -- which we know as Earth.
ref: 1995 August 19, Marc Fisher, “Church in Cyberspace”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023:
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The planet Earth at the time of Xenu.
wikipedia: L. Ron Hubbard
gyraton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyratons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An object that has a finite energy and spin, moving at the speed of light
homojunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homojunctions
Etymology: From homo- + junction.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A junction between two similar semiconductors
homophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homophilous
form: most homophilous
Etymology: From homo- + -philous.
Senses: examples: 1929, Report of the Health Department of The Panama Canal for the Calendar Year 1929, page unknown
The evidence seems conclusive that A. tarsimaculatus variety aquacaelestis is but slightly homophilous.
glosses: homophilic
homostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homostructures
Etymology: From homo- + structure.
Senses: glosses: Any structure made from one or more homojunctions.
magnetospherically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetospheric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to the magnetosphere
Related terms: magnetospheric
nanotracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanotrack
nanotrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanotracks
Etymology: From nano- + track.
Senses: glosses: A nanosized track
nonmonotonously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonmonotonously
form: most nonmonotonously
Etymology: From nonmonotonous + -ly or non- + monotonously.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not monotonously
rheometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rheo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to rheometry
glosses: Measured using a rheometer
superhumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the production of superhumps
superspinar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superspinars
Etymology: From super- + spinar.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A very large spinar, especially one that violates the Kerr bound (cJ/GM^2>1)
tripolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + polar.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having three poles.
glosses: Having three electrical connections.
examples: text: Instead, what will ultimately replace today’s dollar-centric international monetary and financial system is a tripolar system organized around the dollar, the euro, and the Chinese renminbi.
ref: 2011, Barry Eichengreen, The Bear of Bretton Woods:
glosses: Having or involving three centers of military, economic or political power.
Derived terms: tripolarity
Related terms: multipolar
ULRR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of upper limit of reference range.
DDL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DDLs
form: DD
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Data Definition Language.
glosses: Initialism of Direct Download Link, an Internet link to a file, for immediate download, instead of via file sharing.
Related terms: DCL
DML
critiquable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more critiquable
form: most critiquable
Etymology: From critique + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be critiqued.
Derived terms: uncritiquable
APU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APUs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: GPU
PU
glosses: Initialism of auxiliary power unit.
APU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: APUs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Azusa Pacific University.
RPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RPPs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of recreational pilot permit.
glosses: Initialism of registered pension plan.
Coordinate terms: sense: pension
word: RRSP
sense: pension
word: TFSA
sense: pension
word: CPP
sense: pension
word: QPP
sense: pension
word: OAS
sense: pilot's licence
word: LSA
Related terms: sense: pension
word: CPP
sense: pension
word: QPP
I know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: you're telling me#Phrase
I know it#Phrase
I know that's right#Phrase
I know, right#Phrase
antonyms: I don't know#Interjection
glosses: A response used to indicate that speaker was in agreement with the preceding statement before it was made.
examples: text: Near-synonym: eureka
text: - What are we going to do with this leaky hosepipe?
- I know: let's use it as a garden sprinkler!
glosses: An emphatic assertion that one has a solution, an answer, or an idea.
Related terms: what do I know
you're telling me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: I know, right; IKR
synonyms: I know
coordinate_terms: tell me about it
;
you said it
;
amen#Interjection
glosses: Used to indicate that the speaker was in agreement with the preceding statement before it was made.
glout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːt/
ipa: /ɡlaʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: glouts
Etymology: From Scots. Compare gloat.
Senses: glosses: A sulky look.
glosses: A stare.
glout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːt/
ipa: /ɡlaʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: glouts
form: glouting
form: glouted
form: glouted
Etymology: From Scots. Compare gloat.
Senses: examples: text: "Mehalah!" called Mrs. Sharland. "I will not have you glouting in there any longer. Come out."
ref: 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes:
glosses: To sulk; to be sulky; to pout.
examples: text: ... namely that whosoever attempteth any thing for the publike (specially if it pertaine to Religion, and to the opening and clearing of the word of God) the same setteth himselfe upon a stage to be glouted upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himselfe headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every sharpe tongue.
ref: 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, published 1611, Preface:
glosses: To stare; to stare gloatingly.
Heihe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hāʹhǔʹ
Forms: form: Hei-ho
Etymology: From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé, literally “black river”) referring to the Amur.
Senses: examples: text: Nunkiang is a county of 450,000 people on a wide area, one of the counties of Heiho prefecture.
ref: [1977 November, Rewi Alley, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
text: According to our reporter Wang Zengxiang, the organizational system of our province's Aihui County has already been canceled and in line with an official and written reply of the State Council to our province, this county will be incorporated into Heihe City.[…]
Heihe City was established in 1980 with the approval of the State Council. Its administrative division covers Heihe Township of the former Aihui County, one suburban commune, and three neighboring collieries. After Aihui is incorporated into Heihe City, Heihe City will still be under the leadership of Heihe Prefecture.
ref: 1983 June 27 [1983 May 28], “Heilongjiang's Aihui County Joins Heihe City”, in Daily Report: China, number 124, sourced from Harbin HEILONGJIANG RIBAO p 1 [黑龙江日报], translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC Regional Affairs: Northeast Region, page S 2:
english: 黑龙江日报
translation: 黑龙江日报
text: Trade between Heihe and Blagoveshchensk reopened in 1986, and in 2000 a small special economic zone was formed along the border to encourage commerce. Shop fronts in Heihe display signs in both Chinese characters and Russian Cyrillic.
ref: 2015 December 15, Michael Schuman, “Thaw in China-Russia Relations Hasn’t Trickled Down”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2015, International Business:
text: But the current outbreak has hit more than 40 cities, and officials in Heihe -- a northern city on the border with Russia -- said they would offer 100,000 yuan ($15,500) as a reward for information.
"In order to uncover the source of this virus outbreak as soon as possible and find out the chain of transmission, it is necessary to wage a people's war of epidemic prevention and control," the city government said in a notice.
ref: 2021 November 9, “Chinese city offers cash for clues in Covid 'people's war'”, in France 24, sourced from Beijing (AFP), archived from the original on 09 Nov 2021, Live news:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China, on the Russian border, across the Amur river from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk.
Related terms: Black River
Río Negro
ice resurfacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice resurfacers
Senses: glosses: A machine for smoothing the surface of an ice rink.
Synonyms: sense: machine
word: Zamboni
glouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glout
glouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glout
glouting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glouting
form: most glouting
Senses: examples: text: She had been greatly, therefore, disappointed in the morning, when Mrs Western had changed her mind on the very point of departure; and had been in what is vulgarly called a glouting humour ever since.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
glosses: sullen, pouting
Synonyms: sense: sullen
word: pouting
sense: sullen
word: sulky
sense: sullen
word: sullen
glouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glout
glouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glout
space writers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space writer
ghost writers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostwriters
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost writer
yielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yielders
Etymology: From Middle English yeldere, ȝelder, ȝeldere, continuing (with change of suffix) Old English ġylda, ġilda (“one who pays, yielder”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldō (“payer”). Equivalent to yield + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Out of the whole ninety-five [cows] there were eight in particular […] who, though the teats of one or two were as hard as carrots, gave down to her with a readiness that made her work on them a mere touch of the fingers. Knowing, however, the dairyman’s wish, she endeavoured conscientiously to take the animals just as they came, excepting the very hard yielders which she could not yet manage.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the third (The Rally), page 243:
text: Just as with the Irish potato, it is important to know how good a yielder you are planting.
ref: 1903, Charles William Burkett et al., Agriculture for Beginners:
text: This variety is a very heavy yielder, has good drought-resistant qualities, and withstands wind and weather so well that it may be said to be storm-proof.
ref: 1915, Australia Department of External Affairs, Wheat Growing in Australia:
glosses: Someone or something that yields a crop or other product.
examples: text: Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: I am a modest man, sir, and hesitate to talk about myself even among friends; but since you all insist, there is nothing for me to do but yield as gracefully as I may--and as a yielder I glitter in the front rank.
ref: 1909, Robert Fitzgerald, The Statesmen Snowbound:
glosses: Someone or something that yields, or gives way.
yielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yielder
acetylcysteine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌas.ɪ.tʌɪlˈsɪ.stɪ.iːn/
ipa: /ˌas.ɪ.tɪlˈsɪ.stɪ.iːn/
ipa: /ˌas.ɪ.tʌɪlˈsɪ.steɪn/
ipa: /əˌsi.tl̩ˈsɪ.stəˌin/
ipa: /ˌæs.əˌtilˈsɪ.stəˌin/
ipa: /ˌæs.ət.l̩ˈsɪ.stəˌin/
Etymology: From acetyl + cysteine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An acetylated form of the amino acid cysteine (trademark Mucomyst), which is an antioxidant used as a mucolytic agent and in the treatment of paracetamol poisoning.
Derived terms: word: carbocisteine
english: mucolytic
translation: mucolytic
word: -steine
adenocarcinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adeno- + carcinogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The carcinogenesis of adenocarcinomas
amoebozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amoebozoa
form: amoebozoans
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms, from Amoebozoa + -n. By surface analysis, amoebo- + -zoan.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: amoebozoon
glosses: Any protozoa of the kingdom (or phylum) Amoebozoa
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
antirepressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antirepressor
antirepressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirepressors
Etymology: From anti- + repressor.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that blocks or inactivates a repressor
antivascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antivascular
form: most antivascular
Etymology: From anti- + vascular.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Describing any drug that attacks the vasculature of a tumour
archaeplastid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeplastids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant or alga of the taxon Archaeplastida
Related terms: archaeplastidal
azoxymethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From azoxy + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The N-oxo derivative of azomethane
bromoperoxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoperoxidases
Etymology: From bromo- + peroxidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that, in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, catalyzes the bromination of a hydrocarbon
Derived terms: vanadium bromoperoxidase
carprofen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug whose structure is based on carbazole
chemosensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemosensitivities
Etymology: From chemo- + sensitivity.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A measure of the sensitivity of a tumour to the effects of an anticancer drug.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A measure of the sensitivity of a microbial sample to the effects of an antimicrobial drug.
xylosma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylosmas
Etymology: From the genus name Xylosma.
Senses: examples: text: The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers.
ref: 1978, Oliver E. Allen, Pruning and Grafting, page 93:
glosses: Any of various evergreen shrubs and small trees in the genus Xylosma
clomiphene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clomiphenes
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: UK and US spelling of clomifene.
cyclodialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclodialyses
Etymology: From cyclo- + dialysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The creation of a passage between anterior chamber of the eye and the suprachoroidal space such that the aqueous humour may filter out and reduce pressure in cases of glaucoma.
depigmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depigmentations
Etymology: From de- + pigmentation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: repigmentation
hyperpigmentation
overpigmentation
coordinate_terms: hypopigmentation
underpigmentation
glosses: The loss of the skin's normal pigmentation.
Derived terms: depigmentational
diethyldithiocarbamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diethyldithiocarbamates
Etymology: From diethyl + dithiocarbamate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The diethyl derivative of the dithiocarbamate anion
diindolylmethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diindolylmethanes
Etymology: From di- + indolyl + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The di-indolyl derivative of methane found in many brassicas; it has anticarcinogenic properties
dimethylbenzanthracene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylbenzanthracenes
Etymology: From di- + methyl + benzanthracene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric dimethyl derivatives of benzanthracene, but especially 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene which is a carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbon used in medical research
apologism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologisms
Etymology: From apology + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: apologia
apology
glosses: A defence or excuse; a speech or written answer made to justify someone.
Related terms: apologeticism
apologetics
apologist
apologize
benzanthracene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzanthracenes
Etymology: From benz- + anthracene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric tetracyclic aromatic hydrocarbons formed by the fusion of a benzene ring with anthracene.
Derived terms: dimethylbenzanthracene
Related terms: english: the linear isomer
translation: the linear isomer
word: tetracene
alt: the nonlinear isomer
word: tetraphene
dimethylhydrazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylhydrazines
Etymology: From di- + methyl- + hydrazine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric dimethyl derivatives of hydrazine, but especially 1,2-dimethylhydrazine which is used in medical research.
Synonyms: word: DMH
Hypernyms: methylhydrazine
Hyponyms: 1,1-dimethylhydrazine / unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine / UDMH
1,2-dimethylhydrazine / symmetrical dimethylhydrazine / SDMH
Derived terms: word: DMH
Related terms: dimethylhydrazone
monomethylhydrazine
tetramethylhydrazine
trimethylhydrazine
ectocarpoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectocarpoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any brown alga of the order Ectocarpales
epiflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: epiphytic flora
Derived terms: epifloral
epiphytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From epiphytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an epiphytic manner; in the manner of an epiphyte