cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antpeckers
Etymology: From ant + pecker.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Parmoptila of tropical songbirds of Africa.
Derived terms: Jameson's antpecker
red-fronted antpecker
Woodhouse's antpecker
antpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antpecker
rosybill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosybills
Etymology: From rosy + bill.
Senses: glosses: The rosy-billed pochard, Netta peposaca.
rosybills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosybill
palmcreeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmcreepers
Etymology: From palm + creeper.
Senses: glosses: The ovenbird Berlepschia rikeri.
palmcreepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmcreeper
shitawful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shitawful
form: most shitawful
Etymology: From shit + awful.
Senses: glosses: Very awful.
Heimlich manoeuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heimlich manoeuvres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Heimlich maneuver.
forestress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestresses
Etymology: From forester + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female forester.
brigandess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brigandesses
Etymology: From brigand + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female brigand.
Kinqu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kunqu.
Aman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Bukit Aman
sudadero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudaderos
Etymology: From Spanish sudadero.
Senses: glosses: A saddle blanket.
sudaderos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sudadero
deco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: dekko (one pronunciation)
Etymology: Clipping of decompression
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Decompression.
deco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: dekko (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: decos
Etymology: Clipping of decorative or similar.
Senses: examples: text: Start your own Traveling Deco Journal […] Improve your Deco and Friendship Book Bindings
ref: 2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail - The Lost Art of Letterwriting, page 110:
text: […] little booklet called the 'deco' (decorated friendship book), passes from person to person through the mail in an envelope with each recipient decorating a page including their name and address before passing it on.
ref: 2005, Amy Spencer, DIY: The Rise of Lo-fi Culture, page 131:
text: Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
ref: 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music, page 194:
glosses: A friendship book in which people add decorative elements such as drawings, stickers and sequins.
Fagin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪɡɪn/
Forms: form: Fagins
form: fagin
Etymology: From the character named Fagin in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.
Senses: examples: text: The indignation of the self-respecting deaf is aroused by the fact that nine-tenths of the mendicant peddling is engineered by slick Fagins who teach inexperienced deaf youths the tricks of the trade and then collect the lion's share of the profits.
ref: 1947, California News - Volumes 63-67, page 104:
text: We sort of treat a situation whereby the proprietor or operator or person running a foster home, if he were to make a profit, we sort of regard him as sort of a Fagin because he has been making money off little kids.
ref: 1967, Public Hearing: Subject: Licensing of Private Facilities, page 14:
text: Each such group exercises a formative influence on the active dispositions of its members. A clique, a club, a gang, a Fagin's household of thieves, the prisoners in a jail, provide educative environments for those who enter into their collective or conjoint activities, as truly as a church, a labour union, a business partnership, or a political party.
ref: 2009, Problems of Education, →ISBN, page 70:
text: A few of its occupants were poor, law-abiding folk just trying to get by peaceably, but it was a heaven-sent recruiting center for Jack and Ralph who, Neal said, ran a Fagin-like academy for aspiring pickpockets, sneak thieves, and burglars.
ref: 2010, Graham Vickers, Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero, →ISBN:
text: At Midwest there is a Fagin character, Quinton, who is running a school for terrorists or something on that order.
ref: 2013, Charles Samuel, Ghost of Honor, →ISBN, page 177:
text: Apocalypse also happens to be a Fagin figure, shuffling around the back alleys of Cairo, where he makes the weather-controlling pickpocket Storm (Alexandra Shipp) his first follower by offering her baubles.
ref: 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A person who entices children into criminal activity, often teaching them how to conduct those crimes, and profits from their crimes in return for support.
wikipedia: Charles Dickens
Fagin
Oliver Twist
Derived terms: Faginesque
Riemannian geometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Riemannian geometry
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Myanmar snub-nosed monkeys
Senses: glosses: Rhinopithecus strykeri, a critically threatened species of colobine monkey of northern Burma (Myanmar).
Synonyms: Burmese snub-nosed monkey
antidyslipidaemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The rate of nonadherence to other medications such as antidiabetics and antidyslipidaemics were 61.2% and 46.0%, respectively.
ref: 2015 December 5, “Nonadherence to Medication Therapy in Haemodialysis Patients: A Systematic Review”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of antidyslipidaemic
antiflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Thus, we compared the antiflammatory cytokine profile in nodules subgroup and non-nodules subgroup of PC patients.
ref: 2015 December 5, “The Role of Cryptococcus in the Immune System of Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of antiinflammatory.
exotospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotospores
Senses: glosses: The needle-shaped form of the spore of the malarial parasite transmitted by mosquitos.
ctenotus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenotuses
Etymology: From the genus name, translingual Ctenotus.
Senses: glosses: Any skink of the genus Ctenotus.
Hyponyms: Atherton ctenotus
ctenotuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the ctenotuses that we found have been recorded in sand dune habitat east and north-east of the Field River many kilometres from any riparian or lacustrine habitats, as well as further west in open sand desert habitats, suggesting very limited or no proximity effect of riverine habitat on species' distributions.
ref: 2015 December 5, “Diversity and Community Composition of Vertebrates in Desert River Habitats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of ctenotus
exotospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exotospore
exflagellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exflagellations
Senses: glosses: The protrusion or formation of flagella by a protozoon.
exflagellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exflagellation
densonucleovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: densonucleoviruses
Senses: examples: text: Two additional studies also targeted malaria: an Anopheles densonucleovirus was modified to produce green fluorescent protein within the Anopheles host to demonstrate its potential for delivery of antiplasmodial effectors [21 ]; and the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae, a natural pathogen of mosquitoes, was modified to produce the antiplasmodial peptide SM1 and the antimicrobial scorpine and proved capable of reducing sporozoite counts by 98% [22 ].
ref: 2015 December 5, “Inhibition of Plasmodium berghei Development in Mosquitoes by Effector Proteins Secreted from Asaia sp. Bacteria Using a Novel Native Secretion Signal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of densovirus.
densonucleoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of densonucleovirus
etiognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That said, in the future we plan to disaggregate the task of prognosis from etiognosis by developing a purely prognostic algorithm (ignoring causal pathways) and then separately perform analyses to estimate a hazard of risks from a causal perspective.
ref: 2015 December 5, “Predicting Stroke Risk Based on Health Behaviours: Development of the Stroke Population Risk Tool (SPoRT)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of etiology.
synonyms: word: etiology
dogote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogotes
Etymology: Blend of dog + coyote.
Senses: examples: text: So I began researching coyote-dog crosses, typically called coydogs or dogotes.
ref: 2011, Sue Stauffacher, Hide and Seek, page 148:
glosses: A hybrid between a male dog and a female coyote.
Related terms: coydog
dogotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogote
eudoxid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudoxids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The cormidium of a calycophoran siphonophore
Synonyms: eudoxome
cormidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cormidia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk”) + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The colonial body of a compound animal
Related terms: cormidial
compound animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound animals
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of individual animals that form a distinct, individual colony.
Related terms: zoon
embryoctony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Deliberate destruction of the unborn fetus; abortion.
calycophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calycophorans
Etymology: From Calycophorae + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any siphonophore of the suborder Calycophorae
calycophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calycophoran
compound animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound animal
eudoxids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.
ref: 2015 December 5, “Diel Vertical Dynamics of Gelatinous Zooplankton (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) in a Subtropical Stratified Ecosystem (South Brazilian Bight)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of eudoxid
fumiformamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Recent isolation of new induced metabolites such as fumiformamide 1 [40 ] and 4”-hydroxysulfoxy-2, 2”-dimethylthielavin P [41 ] demonstrated that antagonistic microbial co-culture maybe useful for drug discovery.
ref: 2015 December 5, “Exploring the Antibacterial and Antifungal Potential of Jellyfish-Associated Marine Fungi by Cultivation-Dependent Approaches”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfated-formyl xanthocillin analogue found in Aspergillus fumigatus.
half-op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-ops
Etymology: From half + op.
Senses: synonyms: hop
glosses: An IRC channel operator with limited privileges, unable for example to promote other users to operator status.
half-ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-op
emmenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμμηνα (émmēna, “menses”) + -o- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of menstruation.
embryotoxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The presence of a band of corneal opacity similar in appearance to the arcus senilis, sometimes seen in newborns.
karyolemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karyolemmas
Etymology: From karyo- + lemma.
Senses: examples: text: Photomicrographs revealed that the microvilli were shorter and sparser; the nuclear envelope invaginated and gaps in the karyolemma increased; and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) swelled significantly.
ref: 2015 December 5, “Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Heat- and Shake-Induced Injury in the Rat Small Intestine”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A nuclear membrane.
empyematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From empyema + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an empyema.
empyemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From empyema + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an empyema.
nanobore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobores
Etymology: From nano- + bore.
Senses: examples: text: The combined sample was fractionated into 24 fractions by strong cation exchange chromatography. iTRAQ-labeled peptides were loaded on to a reverse-phase nanobore column.
ref: 2015 December 5, “Plasma Proteome Biomarkers of Inflammation in School Aged Children in Nepal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A nanoscale bore
neuroimmunomodulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroimmunomodulators
Etymology: From neuro- + immunomodulator.
Senses: examples: text: Converging evidence has indicated the importance of vitamin D as a neuroimmunomodulator for cognitive function.
ref: 2015 December 5, “25-Hydroxyvitamin D 3 Deficiency Independently Predicts Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A neurological immunomodulator
nanobores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobore
neurotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotropins
Senses: examples: text: In line with this, neonatal rats exposed to vitamin D deficiency during brain development show changes in brain structure and neurochemistry [29 ]. 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 has effects on neurotrophic function, neuroprotection and neuroimmunomodulation in vitro [10, 30 ]. 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 upregulates synthesis of nerve growth factor, neurotropin 3 and low-affinity p75 NTR receptors [10, 30 ].
ref: 2015 December 5, “25-Hydroxyvitamin D 3 Deficiency Independently Predicts Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of neurotrophin.
protocerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From proto- + cerebral.
Senses: examples: text: Its main neuropils are the lower and upper divisions of the central body (CBL and CBU, respectively) and the protocerebral bridge (PB) [18 ].
ref: 2015 December 5, “Compass Cells in the Brain of an Insect Are Sensitive to Novel Events in the Visual World”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the protocerebrum
shruti box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shruti boxes
form: sruti box
form: shrutibox
form: srutibox
Etymology: Compound of shruti + box.
Senses: examples: text: During the “Gayatri Mantra” her voice soared over the hypnotic drone that one hand coaxed from her shruti box, while the other hand energetically massaged the air.
ref: 2006 December 2, Vivien Schweitzer, “Prayer, Texts and Chants, Along With Some Improv”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: surpeti
glosses: A musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian classical music.
sruti box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sruti boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shruti box.
spheroechinocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheroechinocytes
Etymology: From sphero- + echinocyte.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, the number of irreversible shapes such as spheroechinocyte and spherostomatocyte shapes was higher in plateau RBCs compared with lowland RBCs. Previous studies indicated that RBC shape changes are related to enhanced osmotic fragility and cation dysregulation, and are accompanied with increasing hemolysis and acidosis [23 ,24 ].
ref: 2015 December 5, “Adaption to High Altitude: An Evaluation of the Storage Quality of Suspended Red Blood Cells Prepared from the Whole Blood of Tibetan Plateau Migrants”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An echinocyte in the form of a crenated sphere
spherostomatocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherostomatocytes
Etymology: From sphero- + stomatocyte.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, the number of irreversible shapes such as spheroechinocyte and spherostomatocyte shapes was higher in plateau RBCs compared with lowland RBCs. Previous studies indicated that RBC shape changes are related to enhanced osmotic fragility and cation dysregulation, and are accompanied with increasing hemolysis and acidosis [23 ,24 ].
ref: 2015 December 5, “Adaption to High Altitude: An Evaluation of the Storage Quality of Suspended Red Blood Cells Prepared from the Whole Blood of Tibetan Plateau Migrants”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A near-spherical stomatocyte
hepatalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepat- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pain in the liver
thaliacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaliaceans
Etymology: Thaliacea + -an
Senses: glosses: Any pelagic marine tunicate of the class Thaliacea.
thaliaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition, thaliaceans produce large, rapidly sinking fecal pellets with high organic content, which are important in exporting pelagic organic matter to deep waters and/or benthos [15 ].
ref: 2015 December 5, “Diel Vertical Dynamics of Gelatinous Zooplankton (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) in a Subtropical Stratified Ecosystem (South Brazilian Bight)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of thaliacean
hepatoduodenostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatoduodenostomies
Etymology: From hepato- + duodeno- + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The formation of an opening from the liver into the duodenum.
Synonyms: hepaticoduodenostomy
hepaticoduodenostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepaticoduodenostomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of hepatoduodenostomy.
synonyms: word: hepatoduodenostomy
hepatoduodenostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatoduodenostomy
hepaticoduodenostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepaticoduodenostomy
hepatodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepato- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pain in the liver
hepatoenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + enteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the liver and the intestine
hepatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepato- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: radiographic imaging of the liver
Related terms: hepatographic
hepatogram
carpet washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet washers
Senses: glosses: A kind of vacuum cleaner that uses water and shampoo to wash carpets.
carpet washers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpet washer
hippiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hippiatry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hippiatry.
hippuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippo- + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of (excessive) hippuric acid in the urine, as sometimes occurs in diabetes mellitus
hepatolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatolysins
Etymology: From hepato- + lysin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cytolysin that acts on liver cells.
hepatolysins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatolysin
underpigmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + pigmentation.
Senses: synonyms: hypopigmentation
antonyms: overpigmentation
hyperpigmentation
hypernyms: pigmentation
coordinate_terms: depigmentation
glosses: Inadequate pigmentation.
Related terms: hypopigmented
underpigmented
overpigmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + pigmentation.
Senses: synonyms: hyperpigmentation
antonyms: underpigmentation
hypopigmentation
;
depigmentation
hypernyms: pigmentation
glosses: Excessive pigmentation.
underpigmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpigmented
form: most underpigmented
Etymology: From under- + pigmented.
Senses: synonyms: hypopigmented
antonyms: overpigmented
hyperpigmented
hypernyms: pigmented
coordinate_terms: depigmented
;
nonpigmented
unpigmented
;
repigmented
glosses: Inadequately pigmented.
Related terms: hypopigmentation
underpigmentation
overpigmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpigmented
form: most overpigmented
Etymology: From over- + pigmented.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: overdyed, overcolored
synonyms: hyperpigmented
antonyms: hypopigmented
underpigmented
;
depigmented
;
nonpigmented
unpigmented
hypernyms: pigmented
coordinate_terms: repigmented
glosses: Excessively pigmented.
Related terms: hyperpigmentation
overpigmentation
hysterocatalepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hystero- + catalepsy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of hysteria accompanied by catalepsy.
hysterocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysteroceles
Etymology: From hystero- + -cele.
Senses: glosses: A hernia of the uterus.
hysteroceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysterocele
hysterocleisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Eight cases were operated on (including his own) by hysterocleisis, kolpocleisis, or nephrectomy.
ref: 1893, The Monthly Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine:
text: As to the gynecological teaching, there is much that might be criticised, as, for instance, the recommendation of Hegar's perineorrhaphy, the including of hysterocleisis, and colpocleisis and the vaginal fixation of the uterus.
ref: 1904, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 725:
text: Indirect obliteration is very simply obtained by denuding and then suturing the lips of the cervix (hysterocleisis).
ref: 1913, Henri Albert Charles Antoine Hartmann, Gynecological operations, page 515:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical closure of the uterus by suturing the edges of the os.
hyperphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperphilias
Etymology: From hyper- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: excessive sexual inclination or desire
Synonyms: erotomania
hyperphilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperphilia
well-horned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-horned
form: best-horned
form: well horned
Senses: examples: text: 1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131, https://books.google.ca/books?id=sGsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&dq=%22best-horned%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAro7Apf3MAhUJx2MKHSeMCJgQ6AEImgEwGQ#v=onepage&q=%22best-horned%22&f=false
The best horned cattle are those of Dalecarlia.
text: In races of sheep where both sexes are equally well horned castration has no effect on the development of horns (the same thing applies in the analogous case of reindeer. […]).
ref: 1923, Richard Goldschmidt, translated by William Dakin, The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination, Methuen & Co., page 153:
text: Bikehandles was a well-horned billy-goat.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 186:
text: He was a handsome buck, well horned with a huge rack of antlers; / Tyrrhus’s boys had been feeding him since he’d been torn from his mother’s / Dugs.
ref: 2007, Virgil, translated by Frederick Ahl, Aeneid, Oxford University Press, Book 7, 483-5, p. 173:
text: Piebald males often tolerate the presence of several other well-horned males in their vicinity but these can always be graded by colour and clearly represent hierarchically ordered age-classes.
ref: 2015, Jonathan Kingdon, The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, page 586:
glosses: Having large or fine horns or antlers.
well horned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better horned
form: best horned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-horned.
improvisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From improvise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be improvised.
unimprovised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + improvised.
Senses: glosses: Not improvised.
unimpoverished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + impoverished.
Senses: glosses: Not impoverished.
common brown cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common brown cups
Senses: glosses: Peziza phyllogena
symphorol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symphorols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of caffeine-sulfonic acid.
Hyponyms: nasrol
nasrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps from Na chemical symbol and an abbreviation for symphorol?
Senses: examples: text: Experiments with nasrol (sodium caffeine-sulphonate), however, showed that this combination did not excite the vascular nervous system […]
ref: 1894, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 45, page 31:
text: Nasrol can be given in daily doses […]
ref: 1897, David Cerna, Notes on the Newer Remedies:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: sodium symphorol
symphorols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphorol
nicotianin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nicotianine.
nitrobacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrobacters
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Nitrobacter.
nitrobacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrobacter
nitrosomonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrosomonads
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Nitrosomonas of rod-shaped chemoautotrophic bacteria.
nitrosomonads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrosomonad
nitroglucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitro- + glucose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound derived from glucose by the action of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, given as an arterial stimulant.
nucleoloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nucleoloid
form: most nucleoloid
Etymology: From nucleolus + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a nucleolus.
nucleoliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nucleoliform
form: most nucleoliform
Etymology: From nucleolus + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a nucleolus.
nucleopetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nucleo- + -petal.
Senses: glosses: Directed toward a nucleus.
Stewartson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Stewart + -son.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname.
sruti boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sruti box
shruti boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shruti box
automatograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automatographs
Senses: examples: text: The automatograph revealed a variety of interesting movement tendencies.
ref: 2003, Daniel M. Wegner, The Illusion of Conscious Will:
glosses: An instrument for recording involuntary movements of a human subject.
Related terms: automatogram
automatographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automatograph
neurocentrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurocentra
Senses: glosses: The central portion of the neural axis, the body of a vertebra.
neurocentra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurocentrum
neurotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotizations
Senses: glosses: The regeneration of a divided nerve.
neurotizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotization
autoimmunization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: autoimmunizations
Etymology: By surface analysis, auto- + immune + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, when the extent of sperm autoimmunization was taken into account, it was inversely correlated with the overall fertilization rate.
ref: 2009, Walter K.H. Krause, Immune Infertility: The Impact of Immune Reactions on Human Infertility:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: alloimmunization
glosses: The process of becoming autoimmune.
Related terms: autoimmune
autoimmunity
autoimmunize
immunization
neuricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuric + -ity.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Nervous energy or force, regarded as a property inherent in the nerves of the body.
neomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neomorphisms
Etymology: From neo- + -morphism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
biology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A new development of form or structure.
neomorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neomorphism
roseolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roseola + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: It is certain, however, some erythematous or roseolous rashes do closely resemble scarlet fever, and, as they are attended not infrequently with some constitutional disturbance and fever, the difficulty in diagnosis may be very great.
ref: 1893, Henry Ashby, The Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a roseola.
neurotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurotonic
form: most neurotonic
Senses: glosses: Having a strengthening or stimulating effect on the nerves.
glosses: Relating to neurotony.
neurotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotonics
Senses: glosses: Any drug that improves the tone or force of the nervous system.
neurotonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotonic
white cheese polypore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white cheese polypores
Senses: glosses: Tyromyces chioneus
Coordinate terms: blue cheese polypore
roentgenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roentgenizes
form: roentgenizing
form: roentgenized
form: roentgenized
form: roentgenise
Etymology: From Roentgen + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This case, as well as the others, must bring it home to every one of us, that unless we make it our golden rule to roentgenize every accident, especially of the head, we are bound to overlook a large number of serious cases.
ref: 1919 February 27, J. Shohan, “On the need of more frequent roentgenological examinations, particularly in head injuries”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 180, number 9, page 242:
glosses: To apply or examine with X-rays (Roentgen-rays)
neurotony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique of stretching and cutting a nerve, formerly used to treat neuralgia.
roentgenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roentgenize
roentgenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roentgenize
roentgenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roentgenize
ring-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring-bones
Senses: examples: text: This, however, favours strain of the ligaments and unequal distribution of weight over the articular surface, circumstances which lie at the root of the morbid changes, while they also explain why the periarticular form of ring-bone is the most frequent, and why the disease only occurs in solipeds.
ref: 1904, John A. W. Dollar, Practice of Veterinary Surgery: Regional veterinary surgery:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ringbone.
ring-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring-bone
rhinion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Rhinion, from rhin- + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Since the skin is thinner at the rhinion, a slight protrusion of the underlying bony cartilaginous framework should be maintained at the rhinion in order to create a straight external dorsal profile.
ref: 2009, Fred J. Stucker, Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The lower end of the suture between the nasal bones.
supercaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercastes
Etymology: From super- + caste.
Senses: glosses: A caste that is ranked above other castes.
supercastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercaste
NFR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not for resale.
NFR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NFRs
Senses: antonyms: FR
glosses: Initialism of non-functional requirement.
downgradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: downgradeable
Etymology: From downgrade + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being downgraded.
downgradeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of downgradable.
sweet maudlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A European herb with fragrant leaves, sweet-Nancy, sweet yarrow (Achillea ageratum).
glosses: Costmary, a fragrant herb (Tanacetum balsamita).
Synonyms: maudlin
sweet yarrow
sweet yarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sweet maudlin (Achillea ageratum)
Fagins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fagin
information-theoretic death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: information-theoretic deaths
Etymology: From information theory + -ic + death, based on clinical death. Coined by American cryptographer and cryonicist Ralph Merkle.
Senses: examples: text: Information-theoretic death occurs several hours following clinical death. Dying is a process, and in the ideal case cryonics intervention procedures begin immediately after the heart stops beating and prior to brain death.
ref: 2021, Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen, Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: The point at which a person's unique memories and individual personality traits are no longer present in a form that could be read or inferred by future technologies; the complete loss of the information that defines an individual.
fagin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagins
Senses: examples: text: From February until the following October, Latsky was daily in the streets with the "fagins," who made much of him; for at ten years of age he was admitted to be one of the very cleverest of all the young thieves on the East Side.
ref: 1911, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work: A History of Our Time - Volume 22, page 14847:
text: You can always find a fagin or a madam for a kid. I don't know how prices are now — when I was thirteen, I brought fifty dollars." Norvell, his hair standing on end, said, "You?" "I guess I was lucky — they sold me to a fagin, not into a house.
ref: 1954, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 8, Issues 1-6, page 118:
text: Native Speaker does not present the United States as a promised land but as an "orphanage:" "It's an orphanage and there is a fagin"
ref: 2006, Hanna Wallinger, Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Profiling the legendary biblioklept Stephen Blumberg ("the greatest book thief in U.S. history"), the New Yorker magazine writes, “He was a fagin. Many of his friendships were with adolescent boys. He gave them money to help him unload his truck and sometimes to steal things."
ref: 2007, Anu Garg, The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Fagin.
fagins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fagin
skin orgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin orgasms
Senses: glosses: Frisson; aesthetic chills; goosebumps resulting from artistic appreciation, especially of music.
bang stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bang sticks
Senses: examples: text: He pointed the bang stick at the closest shark and braced for the impact.
ref: 2003, Rick Acker, The Lost Treasure of Fernando Montoya, →ISBN, page 82:
text: With his right hand, he held the 12-inch bang stick straight out, arm fully extended as the sharks jaws gaped wide to display its full arsenal of frightening weaponry.
ref: 2008, Michael J. Ganas, The Girl Who Rode Dolphins, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Benedict went into the office in the far corner of the barn and came out with a seven- or eight-foot-long stick with what looked like a hypodermic taped on the end with duct tape. It wasn't a bang stick - but it looked like one had inspired its creation.
ref: 2012, Patricia Briggs, Fair Game: An Alpha and Omega novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of bangstick.
bang sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bang stick
boss-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boss-eyed
form: most boss-eyed
Senses: examples: text: "[…] That aint dishonest—so you needn't look boss-eyed at me […]"
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 187:
text: We should change our hours of sitting because the nation can not properly be represented by Members who become boss-eyed workaholics because they start at 9:30 in the morning and work through until after midnight.
ref: 1990, Harriet Harman, in Hansard, 7 December, 1990, [www.hansard-corpus.org]
text: Dialectologists have produced dialect maps showing different usages in different areas. For example, in England, a map could show different terms for "cross-eyed:" cock-eyed in Northumberland, Westmoreland and parts of the Midlands, boss-eyed in South-East England and East Anglia, squint-eyed in Devon and parts of Somerset, and cross-eyed in Cheshire, Derbyshire and the Isle of Man […]
ref: 2005, Margaret Maclagan, “Regional and Social Variation”, in Martin J. Ball, editor, Clinical Sociolinguistics, John Wiley & Sons, page 17:
text: The reality, according to Susan, was that he was slurring his speech, occasionally spitting out the words in her ear, in an effort to be heard above the night club music, and starting to go slightly boss-eyed with the drink.
ref: 2014, D. J. Roberts, chapter 1, in This is the Modern World, Bloomington, IN: Author House, page 4:
text: Suddenly it was OK to be weird or gay or geeky, a fey boy or a tough girl, a weed or a nerd, wonky-toothed or boss-eyed. Bowie was all these things and he was the coolest rock star ever.
ref: 2016 January 11, Stuart Maconie, “How Starman David Bowie fell to earth and ch-cha-changed an entire generation”, in Irish Mirror:
glosses: Cross-eyed; squinting.
examples: text: "'Thou shouldst a' married, Jock,' said I.
"He gurgled in his cup and set it down; his good eye turned upon us, twinkling.
"'And where's the maid would look on boss-eyed Jock?' he said.
ref: 1906, Dion Clayton Calthrop, King Peter, London: Duckworth, page 220:
text: "There's some roads a man has to be led, an' there's some roads a boss-eyed man can only follow wi' one eye shut. But this road can't be lost by a blind man nor a boss-eyed man nor a cripple and he's neither, thank God."
ref: 1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter V, in The Rainbow, page 130:
glosses: Blind in one eye; having one injured eye.
skin orgasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin orgasm
forestresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestress
rectophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recto- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Careful investigation will, I am sure, account for the nervous rectum of Goodell, the rectophobia of Kelsey, and the irritable rectum of Matthews.
ref: 1893, Chas. C. Allison, “Reflex Pain”, in The Denver Medical Times, volume 12, number 5, page 308:
text: Some writers have used the term rectophobia to describe a condition of morbid foreboding, claimed to be peculiar to patients afflicted with rectal disease.
ref: 1914, A. Bennett Cooke, A treatise on diseases of the rectum and anus:
text: Cryptitis is the daddy of rectal neurasthenia, producing what we might term rectophobia, with the mental exhaustion, foreboding, fear and introspection which disturbed reflexes give to the victims of anal diseases.
ref: 1932, International Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Surgical Journal:
glosses: The fear of rectal disease.
triborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triborates
Etymology: From tri- + borate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any borate having three boron atoms.
Derived terms: lithium triborate
triborates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triborate
rectoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectoscopies
Etymology: From recto- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Forty years ago, endoscopy of the digestive tract only had a negligible role in the diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases, with the exception of rectoscopy and laparoscopy.
ref: 2011, Meinhard Classen, Gastroenterological Endoscopy:
glosses: Synonym of proctoscopy.
synonyms: word: proctoscopy
Related terms: rectoscope
diddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diddy
retrocecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: retrocaecal
Etymology: From retro- + cecal.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that a retrocecal position of the appendix demands special consideration, and may mislead the operator who is not upon his guard, was first noticed, to the best of my knowledge, by C. B. Nancrede, of Ann Arbor, Michigan (Med. News, 1888, vol. 52, p. 570).
ref: 1905, Howard Atwood Kelly, The Vermiform Appendix and Its Diseases:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the caecum.
retropharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪŋks
Etymology: From retro- + pharynx.
Senses: examples: text: Because they stimulate the retropharynx and promote gagging, oral airways must not be used in alert patients or in those with intact gag reflexes.
ref: 2012, John J. Marini, Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The posterior part of the pharynx.
Related terms: retropharyngeal
retrocaecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of retrocecal.
reniculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reniculi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reniculus.
Senses: examples: text: Each reniculus is like a small individual kidney with its own cortex, medulla, and calyx, and the duct from each small unit joins with others to form the ureter.
ref: 2015, Annalisa Berta, Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the lobules of the kidney, especially in whales.
retrocaecally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retrocaecal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of retrocecally.
retrocecally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: retrocaecally
Etymology: From retrocecal + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the cecum.
reniculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reniculus
rectoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectoscopy
diddikai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diddikais
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of didicoy.
diddikais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diddikai
didikai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didikais
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of didicoy.
didikais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didikai
trixel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪksəl
Forms: form: trixels
Etymology: Blend of triangle + pixel
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A triangle assigned a single color based on the colors of the pixels inside it, used in medical imaging systems.
trixels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trixel
dixel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪksəl
Forms: form: dixels
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The time-activity curve associated with a single pixel in a medical image.
dixels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dixel
misstress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstresses
form: misstressing
form: misstressed
form: misstressed
Etymology: From mis- + stress.
Senses: examples: a misstressed syllable
glosses: To stress incorrectly.
Synonyms: misemphasize
misstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstress
misstressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstress
misstressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstress
windac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windacs
Senses: examples: text: Matcham had picked up the windac and went first, Dick following stiffly, with his cross-bow on his arm.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bloody as the Hunter”, in The Black Arrow:
glosses: A grappling iron used to bend a crossbow.
windacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windac
interlinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being interlinear.
Wensdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wensday
renninogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rennin + -o- + -gen.
Senses: examples: text: In cases where the acidity of the gastric contents is low, and also the ferment activity, I have found that frequently most of the ferment is present as renninogen and not as rennin.
ref: 1908 July 25, W. H. Wilcox, “The importance and significance of the chemical examination of the gastric contents after a test meal, with a new method for estimating the ferment activity of the gastric contents”, in The Lancet, page 223:
glosses: Synonym of prochymosin.
synonyms: word: prochymosin