cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
microcrustacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcrustaceans
Etymology: From micro- + crustacean.
Senses: glosses: A very small crustacean
microcrustaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The most abundant groups of invertebrates involved in decomposition in flooded rice fields are oligochaetes, like Enchytraeidae or Tubificidae, chironomid larvae, nematodes and microcrustaceans.
ref: 2015 July 31, “Effects of Residue Management on Decomposition in Irrigated Rice Fields Are Not Related to Changes in the Decomposer Community”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microcrustacean
microphytobenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + phytobenthos.
Senses: examples: text: Further, and as already mentioned in relation to potential fisheries yield, a model driven by pelagic primary production provides minimum estimates of consumer biomass and production because it ignores primary production by microphytobenthos, coral reef algae, macroalgae, seagrasses, marsh plants and mangroves.
ref: 2015 July 31, “Predicting Consumer Biomass, Size-Structure, Production, Catch Potential, Responses to Fishing and Associated Uncertainties in the World’s Marine Ecosystems”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: very small phytobenthos
Related terms: microphytobenthic
prebilaterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bilaterian.
Senses: examples: text: Thus there is a strong, but not perfect, correlation between those tissues expressing so + eya and retinal development in metazoans, reflecting some combination of derivation from antecedent organs [4 ], parallel deployment of the regulatory apparatus for eye development (e.g. [37 ]), and /or retention of a common prebilaterian role for these genes in photosensory system development [15 ].
ref: 2015 July 31, “Gene Expression Data from the Moon Jelly, Aurelia, Provide Insights into the Evolution of the Combinatorial Code Controlling Animal Sense Organ Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: prior to the evolution of the bilaterians
ball alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball alleys
Senses: examples: text: A portion of it was still further desecrated ; up to a very recent period being used as a racket-court, or ball-alley
ref: 1855, Anthony Marmion, The ancient and modern history of the maritime ports of Ireland, p.300 (London: J.H. Banks)
text: Perhaps the single most poignant image in the book is of the handball champion Mickey Walsh, described by Healy as 'our last hero' tossing a ball to himself in the dilapidated ball alley.
ref: 2011, Keith Duggan, House of Pain: Through the Rooms of Mayo Football, →ISBN, page 58:
text: The school was partly in front of them and on fine evenings, the gable end was used as a ball alley and it was quite a gathering place for young people.
ref: 2013, November 6, Siobhan Lincoln, Ardmore Memory and Story - The Village "Roads And Houses" p.2 (Waterford Museum)
text: In Kilkenny City, there was also a tennis court in existence by 1798. This court later became known as a racket court and then a ball alley.
ref: 2015, Paul Rouse, Sport and Ireland: A History, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A place for playing handball, ranging in structure from a patch of hard flat ground beside a gable to an indoor four-walled court similar to a squash court.
examples: text: It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep or maintain in the said village, any ball-alley, or apparatus, alley, machine, building or enclosure, constructed or used for the purpose of playing thereon or therewith at the game called or known by the name of nine-pins or ten-pins, for gain, hire, reward or emolument of any kind or in any manner whatsoever;
ref: 1828, Charter of the village of Albion, New York; quoted in Tanner v Trustees of Albion 5 Hill 121 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1843)
text: [I] knew [Herman Melville] when he was setting up pins in a ball alley.
ref: 1849, Hiram R. Hawkins, quoted in Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography; Volume 1 : 1819-1851, p.250 (JHU Press, 2005) →ISBN
glosses: A bowling alley.
Synonyms: sense: court for playing handball
word: handball alley
European goldfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European goldfinches
Senses: glosses: A bird of the species Carduelis carduelis, native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Carduelis carduelis
word: Eurasian goldfinch
sense: Carduelis carduelis
word: goldfinch
sense: Carduelis carduelis
word: goldspink
sense: Carduelis carduelis
word: redcap
sense: Carduelis carduelis
word: thistlefinch
unshallow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshallow
form: most unshallow
Etymology: From un- + shallow.
Senses: glosses: Not shallow.
home delivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home deliveries
Senses: examples: text: While there is one restaurant for every 421 inhabitants in France, there is only one home delivery outlet for every 58,000 inhabitants. Home delivery is a complex business which requires a good command of transport, cooking and service techniques and which can only be applied to relatively simple, well-known dishes. This is why pizzas are particularly popular in this area […]
ref: 1996, Marketing in Europe, numbers 404-409, page 107:
glosses: A service of delivering goods to the consumer's home.
examples: text: The history of childbirth in the Netherlands and the unbroken importance of home delivery in Dutch society are unique.
ref: 1996, Eva Abraham-Van der Mark, Successful Home Birth and Midwifery: The Dutch Model, page 1:
glosses: Homebirth.
upendings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upending
fissurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissurizations
Etymology: From fissure + -ization.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: formation of a fissure
fissurizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissurization
gapful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gap + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: In the non-relativistic limit, the both types of accompanied gapful modes become infinitely massive, disappearing from the spectrum.
ref: 045028 (2015), Michikazu Kobayashi, Muneto Nitta, “Interpolating relativistic and non-relativistic Nambu-Goldstone and Higgs modes”, in Phys. Rev. D, volume 045028:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having gaps; not gapless.
gapful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gapfuls
Etymology: From gap + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The spirit of a robust carnival gathering at a threshing could swoop inpulsively to serious horse-play: half a gapful of stones in a sack of oats to be carried to a loft or butting a heavy forkful of straw to " bring a man down off the ladder ".
ref: 1983, Michael J. Murphy, Ulster Folk of Field and Fireside, page 107:
text: The structural features of deposits, such as loosened, broken gapfuls between large boulders or segments of isolated rock masses.
ref: 1985, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Erosion, Debris Flow and Disaster Prevention, page 324:
glosses: A quantity that fills a gap.
isocrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocrystals
Etymology: From iso- + crystal.
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of p-adic analogue of a sheaf.
Related terms: isocrystalline
isocrystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocrystal
overconvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overconvergent.
clinkerwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From clinker + -wise.
Senses: examples: planks laid clinkerwise
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In the clinker or lapstrake fashion.
microlever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlevers
Etymology: From micro- + lever.
Senses: examples: text: The x-ray-optical interface system comprises of an optomechanical cavity and a movable microlever interacting with both an optical laser and with x-rays via resonant nuclear scattering.
ref: 2015, Wen-Te Liao, Adriana Pálffy, “An Optomechanical Interface Bridging X-Ray and Optical Photons”, in arXiv:
glosses: A microscale lever.
microlevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microlever
reflectarray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectarrays
Etymology: From reflect + array.
Senses: examples: text: This allows creating reflectarrays with near-perfect transmission out of the resonance band due to the absence of an^([sic]) usually employed metallic screen.
ref: 2015, Rasoul Alaee, Mohammad Albooyeh, Aso Rahimzadegan, Mohammad S. Mirmoosa, Yuri S. Kivshar, Carsten Rockstuhl, “All-dielectric bianisotropic nanoantennas”, in arXiv:
glosses: A reflective array antenna.
Related terms: transmitarray
reflectarrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflectarray
unconfoundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unconfounded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unconfounded.
achromobactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A siderophore peptide produced by Erwinia chrysanthemi bacteria
chrysobactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A siderophore produced by Erwinia chrysanthemi bacteria
Derived terms: ferrichrysobactin
trichrysobactin
agarolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agarolytic
form: most agarolytic
Etymology: From agar + -o- + -lytic.
Senses: examples: text: Here we performed advanced microbial taxonomies combined with both genome-based and classical approaches for new agarolytic vibrio isolates to describe not only a novel Vibrio species but also a member of a new Vibrio clade.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Advanced Microbial Taxonomy Combined with Genome-Based-Approaches Reveals that Vibrio astriarenae sp. nov., an Agarolytic Marine Bacterium, Forms a New Clade in Vibrionaceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: destructive to agar
coef.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of coefficient.
dabrafenib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, several drugs have been developed that treat cancers driven by BRAF, two of which, vemurafenib and dabrafenib, are now FDA approved for treatment of late-stage melanoma.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Enzyme-Free Detection of Mutations in Cancer DNA Using Synthetic Oligonucleotide Probes and Fluorescence Microscopy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A drug for the treatment of cancers associated with a mutated version of the gene BRAF.
dinotefuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular insecticide of the neonicotinoid class.
Carlyle circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carlyle circles
Etymology: The idea of using such a circle to solve a quadratic equation is attributed to Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881).
Senses: examples: text: Carlyle circles have been used to develop ruler-and-compass constructions of regular polygons.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain circle in a coordinate plane associated with a quadratic equation, having the property that the solutions of the equation are the horizontal coordinates of the intersections of the circle with the horizontal axis.
wikipedia: Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carlyle circle
donothingism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of do-nothingism.
Le-Le
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈliːˌliː/
Forms: form: LeLe
form: Le.Le
form: Le Le
Etymology: From the initial syllables of her first and last names.
Senses: glosses: Leona Lewis (born 1985), British singer and actress.
Ri-Ri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːˌɹiː/
Forms: form: RiRi
form: Ri Ri
Etymology: Reduplication of a clipping of Rihanna.
Senses: glosses: Rihanna (musician).
Su-Bo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsuːˌbəʊ/
Forms: form: SuBo
form: Su.Bo
form: Su Bo
Etymology: From the first two letters of each of her first and last names.
Senses: glosses: Susan Boyle (British singer)
Fano plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fano planes
Etymology: Named after Gino Fano (1871–1952), an Italian mathematician.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The finite projective plane of order 2, having the smallest possible number of points and lines, 7 each, with 3 points on every line and 3 lines through every point.
wikipedia: Gino Fano
Fano planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fano plane
A-Rod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪˌɹɒd/
Forms: form: ARod
form: A Rod
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Alex Rodriguez (baseball player).
glosses: Abbreviation of Aaron Rodgers (NFL quarterback).
glosses: Abbreviation of Andy Roddick (tennis player).
K-Rod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪˌɹɒd/
Forms: form: KRod
form: K Rod
Etymology: From K (“strikeout”) + clipping of Rodríguez. A play on A-Rod, a nickname for former third baseman Alex Rodriguez.
Senses: glosses: Francisco Rodríguez (baseball player).
wikipedia: Alex Rodriguez
quasisymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + symmetric.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Almost but not quite symmetric.
dewormings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deworming
Bruck-Ryser-Chowla theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Richard Bruck, H. J. Ryser, and Sarvadaman Chowla.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A result on the combinatorics of block designs, stating that, if a (v, b, r, k, λ)-design exists with v = b (a symmetric block design), then: (i) if v is even, then k − λ is a square; (ii) if v is odd, then the following Diophantine equation has a nontrivial solution: x² − (k − λ)y² − (−1)^((v−1)/2) λ z² = 0.
block design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block designs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: Steiner system
glosses: In combinatorial mathematics, a set together with a family of subsets (repeated subsets are allowed at times) whose members are chosen to satisfy some set of properties deemed useful for a particular application.
Derived terms: BIBD
Related terms: t-design
block designs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block design
glucoregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gluco- + regulatory.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the known glucoregulatory effects of narcotic drugs and endogenous opioid peptides may participate in the proposed role of the opioid system in the adaptation to starvation.
ref: 1989, Margo P. Cohen, The Brain as an Endocrine Organ, page 59:
text: Overall, these data suggest that the glucoregulatory benefits for TGR5 agonists in rodents for the treatment of diabetes and metabolic syndrome likely cannot be separated from concurrent pharmacology in the gallbladder.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Novel Small Molecule Agonist of TGR5 Possesses Anti-Diabetic Effects but Causes Gallbladder Filling in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to glucoregulation.
glycoregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glyco- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to glycoregulation.
hemicellulolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This compartment is the main place for cellulose hydrolysis and many different hemicellulolytic enzymes within this organ are also produced by the bacterial symbionts.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Prospection and Evaluation of (Hemi) Cellulolytic Enzymes Using Untreated and Pretreated Biomasses in Two Argentinean Native Termites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to hemicellulolysis.
henipavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henipaviruses
Etymology: Blend of Hendra virus + Nipah virus which became the name of their genus.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the virus genus Henipavirus.
henipaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the henipaviruses.
henipaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henipavirus
interseason
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + season.
Senses: glosses: Between seasons.
intrahypothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + hypothalamic.
Senses: examples: text: CRF-immunoreactive fibers densely innervate many intrahypothalamic and extrahypothalamic brain areas, including hippocampus.
ref: 2015 August 28, “CP-154,526 Modifies CREB Phosphorylation and Thioredoxin-1 Expression in the Dentate Gyrus following Morphine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within the hypothalamus.
lignocellulolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lignocellulolytic
form: most lignocellulolytic
Senses: examples: text: Then, the particles are moved through the intestinal tract, which consists of the foregut, midgut and hindgut, where several lignocellulolytic enzymes are secreted in each compartments.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Prospection and Evaluation of (Hemi) Cellulolytic Enzymes Using Untreated and Pretreated Biomasses in Two Argentinean Native Termites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: destructive to lignocellulose
monomodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + modal.
Senses: examples: text: A general purpose analysis model (cumulant fit for monomodal dispersions and regularization fit for multimodal dispersions) was employed to determine the hydrodynamic diameter of the particles.
ref: 2015 August 28, “High Throughput Screening Method to Explore Protein Interactions with Nanoparticles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having or employing a single mode
Derived terms: monomodally
Related terms: monomodality
monomodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monomodal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a single mode.
multitranscript
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + transcript.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, 29% of protein-coding genes have been shown to exhibit significant sex-biased expression in Drosophila, and up to 20% of Drosophila multitranscript genes display sex-biased expression of alternative transcripts.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Drosophila Hrp48 Is Required for Mushroom Body Axon Growth, Branching and Guidance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to more than one transcript.
nephrocystin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrocystins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins, mutations in whose genes are associated with nephronophthisis.
nephrocystins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrocystin
nephronophthisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛf.ɹoʊ.nəfˈθaɪ.sɪs/
Etymology: From nephron + -o- + phthisis (“progressive wasting disease”), from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “wasting away, perishing, decay”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A genetic disorder of the kidneys which affects children.
noncrucial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crucial.
Senses: antonyms: crucial
glosses: Not crucial
examples: text: It is worth noting that subjects invest considerable amounts of time on the noncrucial turns (i.e. on average about 16 seconds), but these investments have no payoff.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Experimental Evidence on Iterated Reasoning in Games”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
antonyms: crucial
crucial
critical
glosses: Not crucial:
Not essential; not vital.
synonyms: noncritical
nonessential
coordinate_terms: important
;
desirable
;
optional
;
unimportant
;
negligible
phaseolotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola + toxin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A toxin, produced by halo blight pathogen, that causes systemic chlorosis.
halo blight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A bacterial disease of bean plants, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola.
polyglutamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A polymer of glutamic acid, found in natto and having various uses in food, medicine, and water treatment.
prosaposin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + saposin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein that is a precursor for saposins A, B, C, and D.
Related terms: prosaptide
saposin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saposins
Etymology: From sphingolipid activator protein, + -in.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of small lysosomal proteins that serve as activators of various lysosomal lipid-degrading enzymes.
Derived terms: disaposin
monosaposin
prosaposin
trisaposin
saposins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saposin
submillimolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + millimolar.
Senses: glosses: On a smaller scale than millimolar.
lipodepsinonapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipodepsinonapeptide
syringomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syringomycins
Etymology: syringae + -mycin
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of lipodepsinonapeptide molecules secreted by the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae.
syringomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syringomycin
lipodepsinonapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipodepsinonapeptides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound consisting of a closed ring of nine non-ribosomally synthesized amino acids bonded to a fatty acid hydrocarbon tail.
tebuthiuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Half-lives of PSII herbicides ametryn, atrazine, diuron, hexazinone and tebuthiuron were consistently greater than a year, indicating high persistence.
ref: 2015 August 28, “Herbicide Persistence in Seawater Simulation Experiments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A non-selective broad-spectrum herbicide of the urea class.
amphimictically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From amphimictic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: A great many species, often reported as thelytokous (see, for example, Nur 1990 for the review), in reality combine thelytokous reproduction with amphimixis, producing males amphimictically or parthenogenetically (diploid arrhenotoky and deuterotoky), and these males have, as usual for scale insects, paternal genome heterochromatinization.
ref: 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: By means of amphimixis.
anholocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + holocyclic.
Senses: examples: text: P(c) – cyclic parthenogenesis, P(o) – obligatory parthenogenesis in anholocyclic species, B – additional chromosomes.
ref: 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Not holocyclic.
antennomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antennomeres
Etymology: From antenno- + -mere.
Senses: glosses: Any of the segments of an insect's antenna, in cases where all segments are more or less uniform, e.g. the millipedes.
antennomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antennomere
aphidological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aphidology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aphidology.
aphidology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aphid + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of aphids.
Derived terms: aphidological
aphidologist
aphidologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphidologists
Etymology: From aphidology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, for example, fossil Naibiidae were described by Shcherbakov (1990, 2007) as most ancient, four-winged scale insects, but the same group is considered to be aphids by some aphidologists (see, for example, Wojciechowski 1992).
ref: 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: One who studies aphidology.
aphidologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphidologist
applanations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applanation
applanator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applanators
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring intraocular pressure by means of applanation.
applanators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applanator
arrhenotokous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: arrenotokous
Etymology: From arrhenotoky + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Certain wasps and bees are arrhenotokous.
text: In scale insects no examples of cyclic parthenogenesis are known and parthenogenesis can be thelytokous, deuterotokous or arrhenotokous.
ref: 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.
Derived terms: arrhenotokously
biotoxicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + toxicological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biotoxicology.
biotoxicologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotoxicologists
Etymology: From bio- + toxicologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies biotoxicology.
biotoxicologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotoxicologist
candiduric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From candiduria + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, 85.6% of candiduric patients have ^([sic]) less than 6 months years old.
ref: 2015 July 1, Ali Zarei Mahmoudabadi et al., “Colonization and antifungals susceptibility patterns of Candida species isolated from hospitalized patients in ICUs and NICUs”, in Journal of Nephropathology, volume 4, →DOI:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to candiduria.
cardiocerebrovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + cerebrovascular.
Senses: examples: text: Obesity is considered the major risk factor for dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, hypertension and insulin resistance, which lead to the development of cardiocerebrovascular disease and diabetes.
ref: 2015 August 20, Yaning Zheng et al., “Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Ang-(1-7) in Ameliorating HFD-Induced Renal Injury through LDLr-SREBP2-SCAP Pathway”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: cardiac and cerebrovascular
coccidologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccidologists
Etymology: From coccidology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies coccidology.
coccidological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coccidology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to coccidology.
coccidologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccidologist
cranioencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + encephalic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cranium and encephalon.
deuterotokous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In scale insects no examples of cyclic parthenogenesis are known and parthenogenesis can be thelytokous, deuterotokous or arrhenotokous.
ref: 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to deuterotoky.
epoxyeicosatrienoic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epoxyeicosatrienoic acid
elytral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the elytron.
aminothiols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminothiol
annulus of Zinn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727–1759), German anatomist and botanist.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ring of fibrous tissue surrounding the optic nerve at its entrance at the apex of the orbit.
wikipedia: Johann Gottfried Zinn
Synonyms: anulus tendineus communis
common tendinous ring
Related terms: circle of Zinn-Haller
zonule of Zinn
responser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responsers
Senses: examples: text: In the evening two responsers are appointed on the part of the bride, and as many for the bridegroom: they are expected to answer such questions as the Qází may think proper to ask.
ref: 1837, The Calcutta Christian Observer, volume 6, page 135:
text: One might have expected more fuss against this new direction from the most prominent reader-responsers themselves. Instead, the only complaints have come from prominent literary generalists […]
ref: 2009, John Maynard, Literary Intention, Literary Interpretations, and Readers, page 301:
glosses: One who responds, or gives responses.
Related terms: responder
responsor
vaginal vault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginal vaults
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The expanded region of the vaginal canal at the internal end of the vagina.
vaginal vaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginal vault
mutual informations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutual information
intracorneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + corneal.
Senses: glosses: Within the cornea.
lymphangitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to lymphangitis.
metacoxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metacoxa + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Metasternum with narrow band of pubescence close to metepisterna, meso- and metacoxal cavities; remaining surface with very short and sparse setae, interspersed with some long setae; finely, sparsely punctate.
ref: 2015 August 12, Maria Helena M. Galileo, Ubirajara R. Martins, Antonio Santos-Silva, “New species and new records in Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the state of Bahia, Brazil”, in ZooKeys, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the metacoxa.
microdrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdrills
Etymology: From micro- + drill.
Senses: examples: text: The skin over the skull was incised, and a small hole was made in the skull above the target using a microdrill.
ref: 2015 August 18, Kohei Hironaka et al., “Enzyme replacement in the CSF to treat metachromatic leukodystrophy in mouse model using single intracerebroventricular injection of self-complementary AAV1 vector”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: A microscopic drill (boring tool).
microdrills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdrill
noun numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nouns numeral
Etymology: Calque of Latin nōmen numerāle.
Senses: examples: text: M. How many fold is a Noun Numeral? S. Two fold, Cardinal, and Ordinal.
ref: 1728, John Entick, Speculum Latinum: or, Latin made easy to Scholars by an English Grammar only, London, page 9:
text: Nouns numeral, which serve to distinguish the numbers; and are either cardinal, or ordinal. The cardinal number is the fountain of the other, and expresses or joins units together; as, un, deux, trois, quatre, &c. one, two, three, four, &c. The ordinal number is derived from the cardinal, and shews the order and rank of every thing; as, premier, first; deuximie, or second, second; troisieme, third, &c.
ref: 1795, A. Boyer, The Complete French Master, for Ladies and Gentlemen. A New Edition, Brussels, page 58:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun that represents a number
mytiliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mytiliform
form: most mytiliform
Etymology: From Latin mytilus + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Species on this family can be identified by its mytiliform form, sometimes quadrate, with the hinge edentulous and the umbos anterior or terminal.
ref: 2015 July 17, Rafael Araujo, Yde de Jong, “Fauna Europaea: Mollusca – Bivalvia”, in Biodiversity Data Journal, →DOI:
glosses: Shaped like the shell of a mussel.
neuroprotectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuroprotective + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, the present study was undertaken to assess the neuroprotectivity of spirulina alone and in combination with amantadine in experimental rat induced Parkinsonism.
ref: 2015 August 25, I Chattopadhyaya et al., “Neuroprotective effect of Spirulina fusiform and amantadine in the 6-OHDA induced Parkinsonism in rats”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being neuroprotective.
nonheparinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + heparinized.
Senses: examples: text: The blood was collected in nonheparinized tubes and centrifuged (3100 g, 25 °C, 15 min).
ref: 2015 August 26, Fei Bei et al., “Long-term effect of early postnatal overnutrition on insulin resistance and serum fatty acid profiles in male rats”, in Lipids in Health and Disease, volume 14, →DOI:
glosses: Not heparinized.
nulligravid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nulli- + gravid.
Senses: examples: text: The participants included were nulligravid women between 20 and 30 years of age with ovulatory menstrual cycles (26–32 days long), confirmed by a blood concentration of progesterone equal to or above 5 ng/mL on the 21st day of the cycle.
ref: 2015 July 22, Maria Thereza Micussi et al., “Is there a difference in the electromyographic activity of the pelvic floor muscles across the phases of the menstrual cycle?”, in Journal of Physical Therapy Science, volume 27, →DOI:
glosses: Never having been pregnant.
Derived terms: nulligravidity
Related terms: nulligravida
osteoodontokeratoprosthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + odonto- + keratoprosthesis.
Senses: examples: text: Currently, the most widely used keratoprostheses are Boston keratoprosthesis, osteoodontokeratoprosthesis and Alphacor.
ref: 2015 June 26, Pavel Studeny, Deli Krizova, Pavel Kuchynka, “Use of PocketMaker Microkeratome for Creation of Corneal Pocket for Foldable Keratoprosthesis KeraKlear Implantation – Case Series”, in The Open Ophthalmology Journal, volume 9, →DOI:
glosses: A form of keratoprosthesis using tooth and bone as supports.
penicilloic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several acids obtained from the penicillins by the hydrolytic opening of the lactam ring (as by the action of a beta-lactamase).
pereonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pereonites
Etymology: From pereon + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Head and pereonite 1 fused, suture present.
ref: 2015 August 13, Soon-Sang Hong, Jun-Haeng Heo, Young-Hyo Kim, “A new species of Monoliropus Mayer, 1903 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidae) from Korean waters”, in ZooKeys, →DOI:
glosses: Any of the segments of the pereon.
pereonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pereonite
skeleton shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeleton shrimps
form: skeleton shrimp
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Caprellidae, a family of amphipods with a slender thread-like body.
Synonyms: caprellid
ghost shrimp
physiochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From physio- + chemistry.
Senses: glosses: physical chemistry
pinnulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnulets
Senses: glosses: A small pinnule.
pinnulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinnulet
Birtspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Birt + -speak, after John Birt, Director-General of the BBC from 1992 to 2000.
Senses: glosses: impenetrable jargon
wikipedia: John Birt
Birt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Birtspeak
Hornstein-Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome
quadrinucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + nucleate.
Senses: examples: text: As a result of meiosis, quadrinucleate spermatids are formed, but only the nuclei of maternal origin produce sperm (Fig. 3).
ref: 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 9, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four nuclei.
quadrinucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrinucleates
Etymology: From quadri- + nucleate.
Senses: glosses: A cell that has four nuclei.
quadrinucleates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrinucleate
recentrifugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + centrifugation.
Senses: examples: text: In medium analyses, an aliquot of medium was centrifuged (600 g, 5 min, 4 °C) followed by recentrifugation of the supernatants (21,000 g, 10 min, 4 °C), and the resulting supernatants were used.
ref: 2015 August 25, Yoshiki Koriyama et al., “Glyceraldehyde caused Alzheimer’s disease-like alterations in diagnostic marker levels in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: centrifugation again
redetach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redetaches
form: redetaching
form: redetached
form: redetached
Etymology: From re- + detach.
Senses: glosses: To detach again.
redetachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redetachments
Etymology: From re- + detachment.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of redetaching.
redetached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redetach
redetaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redetach
redetaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redetach
trampishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trampishly
form: most trampishly
Etymology: From trampish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a trampish manner.
resuture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resutures
Etymology: From re- + suture.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent suture.
resuture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resutures
form: resuturing
form: resutured
form: resutured
Etymology: From re- + suture.
Senses: glosses: To suture again.
resuturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resuture
resutured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resuture
resutures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resuture
resutures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resuture
rotometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotometers
Senses: examples: text: Rats were received d-amphetamine sulfate (5.0 mg/kg i.p) and were placed in rotometer bowls.
ref: 2015 August 25, I Chattopadhyaya et al., “Neuroprotective effect of Spirulina fusiform and amantadine in the 6-OHDA induced Parkinsonism in rats”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of rotameter.
rotometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotometer
supermix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermixes
Etymology: From super- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: Quantitative real-time PCR was performed using the iQTM SYBRgreen supermix (Bio-Rad) and the iCycler MyiQTM real-time PCR detection system (Bio-Rad).
ref: 2015 August 26, Mark Bennett et al., “Sandcastle: software for revealing latent information in multiple experimental ChIP-chip datasets via a novel normalisation procedure”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of ready-made reagent mixtures for use in polymerase chain reaction.
supermixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermix
tamponaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tamponade
tamponading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tamponade
transdiagnostically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transdiagnostic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: This process has been shown to be transdiagnostically related to psychopathology, particularly with depression and anxiety states […]
ref: 2015 July 31, Felipe E. García et al., “Trauma or growth after a natural disaster? The mediating role of rumination processes”, in European Journal of Psychotraumatology, volume 6, →DOI:
glosses: In terms of transdiagnosis.
unionoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unionoids
Etymology: From taxonomic name Unio (with insertion of -n- after its etymon, Classical Latin ūniō (stem ūniōn-)) + -oid. Compare earlier unionid and taxonomic name Unionioda.
Senses: examples: text: II. n. Same as unionid.
ref: [1891, “unionoid (ū′ni-ọ̄-noid), a. and n.”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 6619, column 3:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: unioid
unionid
glosses: Any member of the family Unionidae or its order Unionida of freshwater mussels.
unionoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unionoid
form: most unionoid
Etymology: From taxonomic name Unio (with insertion of -n- after its etymon, Classical Latin ūniō (stem ūniōn-)) + -oid. Compare earlier unionid and taxonomic name Unionioda.
Senses: examples: text: Carbonicola, of the Devonian and Carboniferous, comprises Unionoid Bivalves, with thick shells, an external ligament, and a concentrically-striated surface.
ref: 1879, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, “Unionidæ”, in A Manual of Palæontology for the Use of Students […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 492:
text: I know nothing of that of Solenaia beyond the statement of Fischer regarding its greatly developed, mushroom shaped foot and its burrowing habit. It is, I am satisfied, an unionoid animal and the fact that there is a decided posterior pallial sinus to the shell leads me to believe that it has two siphons.
ref: 1914, Charles Torrey Simpson, “Genus Solenaia Conrad, 1869”, in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naiades, or Pearly Fresh-Water Mussels, part I (Unionidæ: Truncilla–Margaritana), Detroit, Mich.: Bryant Walker, →OCLC, page 456:
text: The current record of Australian Lower Cretaceous non-marine macroinvertebrates is substantial but mainly limited to a few highly productive localities. Some remains have been recovered from near-shore marine rocks including the Valanginian Trinity Well Sandstone Member of the Cadna-owie Formation (South Australia) and the Aptian Wallumbilla Formation (White Cliffs, New South Wales). These have produced freshwater unionoid bivalves (Alathyria coatsi, Hyridella whitecliffsensis) and Australia’s oldest known non-marine gastropod – the viviparid Notopala alboscopularis.
ref: 2011, Benjamin P. Kear, Robert J. Hamilton-Bruce, “Non-marine invertebrates”, in Dinosaurs in Australia: Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Life on the shore: Early Cretaceous non-marine animals and plants), page 112, column 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: unionid
unioniform
glosses: Relating to, resembling or characteristic of the family Unionidae or its order Unionida of freshwater mussels.
unionoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unionoid
urogynecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + gynecological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to urogynecology.
urogynecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urogynaecology
Etymology: From uro- + gynecology.
Senses: glosses: A surgical subspecialty of urology and gynecology.
Derived terms: word: urogynecologic
word: urogynecological
Related terms: genitourinary
urogynecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urogynecologists
Etymology: From uro- + gynecologist.
Senses: glosses: One who works in the field of urogynecology.
urogynecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urogynecologist
urogynaecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + gynaecology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urogynecology.
urogynaecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urogynaecologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urogynecologist.
urogynaecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urogynaecologist
urogynaecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urogynecological.
NDEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NDE
monomialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monomial + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: We show that the first Artin-Schreier defect extension in Cutkosky and Piltant's counter-example to strong monomialization is a dependent extension.
ref: 2015, Samar ElHitti, Laura Ghezzi, “Dependent Artin-Schreier Defect Extensions and Strong Monomialization”, in arXiv:
glosses: The process of monomializing.
monomialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monomializes
form: monomializing
form: monomialized
form: monomialized
Etymology: From monomial + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To make into a monomial
Related terms: monomialization
monomialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monomialize
monomializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monomialize
monomializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monomialize
blattisociid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blattisociids
Senses: examples: text: A single amino acid deletion was present at site 158 in Cheiroseius (Mesostigmata: Blattisociidae) and in several other unidentified taxa in this family while several other unidentified blattisociids also had a deletion at the neighbouring site 159.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Patterns of Protein Evolution in Cytochrome c Oxidase 1 (COI) from the Class Arachnida”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any mite in the family Blattisociidae.
blattisociids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blattisociid
quasilinearisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasilinearisations
Etymology: From quasi- + linearisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quasilinearization.
quasilinearisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasilinearisation
gameplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gameplay
channelizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channelizers
Etymology: From channelize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The digital channelizer, which is used to split the received signal into a number of sub-channels, plays an important role in SDR systems.
ref: 2015 August 27, “Dynamic Digital Channelizer Based on Spectrum Sensing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any device or algorithm that selects a specific channel out of some input.