cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mammophant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammophants
Etymology: Blend of mammoth + elephant.
Senses: examples: text: However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth.
ref: 2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Dinosaur Memories, page 186:
text: Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.
ref: 2017 February 22, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:
text: Church and his team plan to create the mammophant by endowing the egg cell of an Asian elephant with the genes for red blood cells that operate efficiently at low temperature, an enhanced fat layer under the skin, and a luxuriant covering of hair and fur - all from the woolly mammoth genome.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 309:
glosses: A (hypothetical) cross between a woolly mammoth and an elephant.
mammophants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammophant
hyolithid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyolithids
Etymology: From scientific Latin Hyolithida (order name).
Senses: examples: text: A study of over 1500 specimens of Haplophrentis, a mid-Cambrian hyolithid from the celebrated Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies and the Spence Shale from Utah, has revealed the details of its soft parts.
ref: 2017 January 18, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:
glosses: A member of the Hyolithida order of extinct lophophorate animals.
hyolithids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyolithid
signal pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal pistols
Senses: glosses: A handgun designed to discharge an illumination flare.
Synonyms: flare gun
Very pistol
signal pistols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signal pistol
peacens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peacen
penectomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of penectomize
penelopises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of penelopise
adverbises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adverbise
besmalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besmall
acidotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acidotropic.
acidotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That feeds in an acidic environment.
adimentionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of adimensionalised.
agenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + genital.
Senses: glosses: Lacking genitals
adimensionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adimensionalise
anisotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anisotropy.
Holec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holecs
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Holec.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
anostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anostracans
Senses: glosses: Any fairy shrimp of the order Anostraca
anostracans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anostracan
antiquitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dehydrogenase that acts upon aminoadipic semialdehyde in the catabolism of lysine
antispindle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + spindle.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That reacts with the spindles of microtubules
raw_tags: of an antibody
apoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoforms
Etymology: From apo- + form.
Senses: glosses: The form of an apoprotein
apoforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apoform
apolipophorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apolipophorins
Etymology: From apo- + lipophorin.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of apolipoproteins that function in lipid transport and lipoprotein metabolism
apolipophorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apolipophorin
apomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From apo- + morphically.
Senses: glosses: In an apomorphic manner
aproptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aprotinin.
asparginyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of asparaginyl.
ausktribosphenidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ausktribosphenidans
Etymology: From translingual Ausktribosphenidae + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any therian of the family Ausktribosphenidae
ausktribosphenidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ausktribosphenidan
autolytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From auto- + lytically.
Senses: glosses: In an autolytic manner; with reference to, or by means of autolysis
Euramerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Euramerican
form: most Euramerican
Senses: examples: text: Her sharp little teeth probably crunched up those Euramerican scorpions; indeed the copious invertebrates that conquered life on land 60 million earlier would have provided a tempting menu for tetrapods venturing from the water.
ref: 2017 January 11, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the supercontinent of Euramerica.
autosequencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autosequencers
Etymology: From auto- + sequencer.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An automatic sequencer
autosumoylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autosumoylates
form: autosumoylating
form: autosumoylated
form: autosumoylated
form: autoSUMOylate
Etymology: From auto- + sumoylate.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo autosumoylation
autosumoylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autosumoylations
form: autoSUMOylation
Etymology: From auto- + sumoylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sumoylation of a ligase that sumoylates other proteins
Related terms: autosumoylate
azithromyicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of azithromycin.
rope-ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rope-ripe
form: most rope-ripe
form: roperipe
Etymology: From rope + ripe.
Senses: examples: text: Sometymes our coyne, could stop a gappe, / And purchace pardon by a traine: / But gallows lucke, and ropripe happe, / At length was gwerdon for our paine.
ref: 1579, Thomas Churchyard, “A Pirates Tragedie”, in A General Rehearsall of Warres, called Churchyard's Choise:
text: As we argued already, Shakespeare's representation of the rope-ripe shrew likely was inspired by abundant accounts of the well-hanged and well-hung shrewmouse.
ref: 2016, J. A. Shea, Paul Yachnin, “The Well-Hung Shrew”, in Lynne Bruckner, Dan Brayton, editors, Ecocritical Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: Deserving of being hanged.
raw_tags: of people
examples: text: Therefore the reporting of our tale, may ſone appere plain if we firſt expreſſe our minde in plaine words, and not ſeeke theſe roperipe termes, which betraie rather a foole, then commende a wiſe man[…]
ref: 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1909, page 107:
text: Lord, how you roule in your rope-ripe termes.
ref: 1611, George Chapman, May Day, act 3, scene 1, page 29:
glosses: Punishable by being hanged.
raw_tags: of actions
Synonyms: hangworthy
gallows-ripe
autosequencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autosequencer
autosumoylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autosumoylate
autosumoylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autosumoylate
autosumoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autosumoylate
autosumoylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autosumoylation
basketstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketstars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basket star.
basketstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketstar
family-friendliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From family-friendly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being family-friendly.
biocrime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocrimes
Etymology: From bio- + crime.
Senses: glosses: Any crime in which the weapon is biological or biochemical
Related terms: biocriminal
bioterrorism
biohydrogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biohydrogenates
form: biohydrogenating
form: biohydrogenated
form: biohydrogenated
Etymology: From bio- + hydrogenate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To hydrogenate (typically unsaturated fatty acids) biochemically (using enzymes)
Related terms: biohydrogenation
bionetwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bionetworks
Etymology: From bio- + network.
Senses: glosses: Any biological, biochemical or ecological network
biscarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biscarbonates
Etymology: From bis- + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of dicarbonate.
synonyms: word: dicarbonate
boneworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boneworms
Senses: glosses: Any marine worm of the genus Osedax, including the bone-eating snot flower worm.
bottomfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottomfishes
form: bottomfish
Senses: glosses: Any fish that lives on or near the seabed
brachydactily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of brachydactyly.
brachyolmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachyolmias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Amy of various disorders characterised by a short trunk, scoliosis and generalized platyspondyly, but without significant abnormalities in the long bones
caesalpinioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesalpinioids
Senses: glosses: Any tree of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae
boneworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boneworm
bottomfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottomfish
brachyolmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachyolmia
caesalpinioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caesalpinioid
ruffle any feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ruffles any feathers
form: ruffling any feathers
form: ruffled any feathers
form: ruffled any feathers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ruffle some feathers; used in negative-polarity contexts
roperipe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roperipe
form: most roperipe
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rope-ripe.
gigadeath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigadeaths
Etymology: From giga- + death.
Senses: examples: text: They'll have no reason to hit the datasphere now. There will be no gigadeaths.
ref: 2008, Ken MacLeod, Fractions: The First Half of The Fall Revolution, page 285:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
coordinate_terms: megadeath
glosses: One billion deaths.
gigadeaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigadeath
front hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front holes
Senses: examples: text: "Do you put your penis into your partner's vagina, [or] rectum?" Or even, "Do you use the front hole or the back hole?" If you ask these questions without using body language or intimidating vocal mannerisms that betray discomfort and negative attitudes, you can get a lot of […]
ref: 1989, Larry Siegel, Milan Korcok, AIDS, the Drug and Alcohol Connection: What Health Care ..., page 58:
text: A.C. stated that she had not been touched by anyone in her "back hole," though she had been touched by Donald in her "front hole."
ref: 2000-2003, People of the State of Illinois v. Cookson, page 14
text: Front-Hole Penetration
Those of us who were assigned female at birth usually have a front hole, unless we have chosen to have it surgically removed via vaginectomy. Many of us have complicated feelings about using our front holes […]
ref: 2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 384:
text: “I don't have a vagina,” he explained, “I have a bonus hole. Other names that don't make me cringe are boy hole and front hole”.
ref: 2015, Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes, Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia: A National Study, Springer, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: The vagina (now sometimes especially of a trans man).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see front, hole.
rope-worthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rope-worthy
form: most rope-worthy
Etymology: From rope + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: To pass over and pretermit the danger of representing the actionds of the others, and mainly of lawyers and churchmen […] canst thou believe it innocent to counterfeit kings and queens? Supposest thou that if the impression of their faces on a farthing be felonious and rope-worthy, the imitation of head and body, voice and bearing, plume and strut, crown and mantle, and everything else that maketh them royal and glorious, be aught less?
ref: 1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, pages 275–276; republished in The Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1846:
glosses: Deserving of being hanged.
Synonyms: rope-ripe
BFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: DFS
glosses: Initialism of breadth-first search.
BFS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Plaintiff States also receive billions of dollars in funds every year directly from Treasury through BFS under federal grant programs.
ref: 2025 February 8, “COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF”, in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, page 2:
glosses: Initialism of Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
DFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: BFS
glosses: Initialism of depth-first search.
glosses: Initialism of daily fantasy sports.
DFS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Tuesday’s news comes just one month after Discover (DFS) and Capital One (COF) announced a merger that — if approved by financial regulators and shareholders — would create the nation’s largest credit card company.
ref: 2024 March 26, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Visa and Mastercard agree to $30 billion settlement that will lower merchant fees”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Initialism of Discover Financial Services.
cardioperfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardioperfusions
Etymology: From cardio- + perfusion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: perfusion of the heart
iterative deepening search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iterative deepening searches
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: word: iterative deepening depth-first search
word: IDS
word: IDDFS
glosses: A type of depth-first search in which each row of the tree is searched incrementally, simulating a breadth-first search with less memory usage.
cavitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cavitate + -ory
Senses: glosses: Relating to cavitation
chemotypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chemo- + typically.
Senses: glosses: In a chemotypic manner
perceptualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceptualizations
form: perceptualisation
Etymology: From perceptualize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of perceptualizing.
methylbutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic compound isopentane.
Derived terms: 2-methylbutane
Four-H Club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Four-H Clubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 4-H Club.
Four-H Clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Four-H Club
chimerins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimerin
chitobiase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitobiases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that hydrolyses chitobiose
ciliogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cilio- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ciliogenesis
combretastatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combretastatin
cranioplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cranioplasty
ctenidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ctenidia
remuster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remusters
form: remustering
form: remustered
form: remustered
Etymology: From re- + muster.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Men. The second front is well under way and our greatest need now is for men on the ground. Some of you, in fact most of you, who had originally volunteered for air-crew duty will need to remuster for your trade training. We need ground staff. You will need to remuster for ground-staff duty.’
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 13, in Small Island, London: Review, page 146:
glosses: To muster again, be gathered together again (especially of a military force).
cytolocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + localization.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The localization of an enzyme or other material in a specific part of a cell
Derived terms: immunocytolocalization
dalbergioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalbergioids
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the tribe Dalbergieae or the clade Dalbergioids.
deglycoylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: deglycosylated
demannosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + mannosylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: From which the mannose groups have been removed
raw_tags: of a glycoside
Beida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbeɪˈda/
Etymology: Borrowed from 北大 (Běidà), a shortening of 北京大學／北京大学 (Běijīng Dàxué).
Senses: examples: text: They reminisced over their move to the UK as idealistic Beida graduates, back in the 80s.
ref: 2023 October 23, Tian Yi, “The Good Son”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of Peking University.
synonyms: word: Peking University
Synonyms: word: PKU
dodecasaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecasaccharides
Etymology: From dodeca- + saccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide composed of twelve monosaccharide units.
dodecasaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecasaccharide
dolicocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dolichocephalic.
dorsopreaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dorso- + preaxial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dorsal and preaxial
dorsopreaxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a dorsopreaxial manner or direction
endophenotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + phenotyping.
Senses: glosses: The construction, recording and analysis of endophenotypes
tin can telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin can telephones
Senses: glosses: A pseudo-telephone constructed from two tin cans (or paper cups, etc.) attached at the ends with string.
endotransglycosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endotransglycosidases
Etymology: From endo- + transglycosidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transglycosidase in which the sugar is moved from the terminal position of a polysaccharide
endotransglycosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endotransglycosidase
eosauropterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eosauropterygians
Senses: glosses: Any extinct reptile of the order Eosauropterygia
eosauropterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eosauropterygian
escarpid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escarpids
Etymology: from translingual Escarpiidae
Senses: glosses: Any tube worm of the family Escarpiidae
ethmoturbinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethmo- + turbinate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ethmoid and turbinate
ethmoturbinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethmoturbinates
Etymology: From ethmo- + turbinate.
Senses: glosses: The part of the ethmoid bone occupying the caudal part of the nasal fossae
bare-footen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bare footen
Etymology: From Middle English bare foten, equivalent to barefoot + -en (past participle ending). Compare English barefooted.
Senses: examples: text: […] “Our host, his fair spouse, and bare-footen maiden, seemed equally strangers to the wholesome duties of ablution; […]”
ref: 1796, Sporting Magazine, volume 7, page 211:
text: Seems like the good Lord wants me swimming, Tom thought. Put me twice in the sound in three days, last time bare-footen.
ref: 2001, Richard Fuller, Escape from Savannah, page 221:
text: She was ordered to go from her house 'bare footen' and 'with a sheet cast upon her smock' to the Official sitting in St Martin's Church (now Carfax Tower, but then the seat of ecclesiastical authority in Oxford before the creation of the diocese), thence to Oxford Castle (the seat of royal power), back to Carfax, and then to the Bocardo (the town gaol, and a site of civic authority).
ref: 2014, Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele, Legalism: Community and Justice, page 128:
glosses: Barefoot.
Enumclaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈi.nʌmˌklɔ/
Senses: glosses: A city in King County, Washington, United States.
virtual machine monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual machine monitors
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: VMM
word: hypervisor
glosses: Synonym of hypervisor.
virtual machine monitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virtual machine monitor
VMM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VMMs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of virtual machine manager.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of virtual machine monitor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of virtual memory manager.
VMMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VMM
bafa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Cape Verdean seafood stew.
fungisone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fungizone.
genistoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genistoids
Senses: glosses: Any of many flowering plants in a clade of the subfamily Papilionoideae
genistoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genistoid
hoofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːfi/
Forms: form: more hoofy
form: most hoofy
Etymology: From hoof + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Around 50 million years ago, cetacean ancestors took to the water. It’s not only those hoofy legs they’ve modified and lost in their consequent evolutionary journey.
ref: 2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having hooves; hoof-like.
Derived terms: hoofiness
glucoazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucoazides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which a hydroxyl of a sugar is replaced by an azide group
glycotripeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycotripeptides
Etymology: From glyco- + tripeptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycopeptide of a tripeptide
haemocoelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the haemocoel
mystecete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystecetes
Senses: examples: text: The red meats originating from nine species of odontocete and six species of mystecete were sold in Japanese markets.
ref: 2009, Blanca Jiménez, Joan Rose, editors, Urban Water Security: Managing Risks, page 85:
text: This moustache is properly called baleen, and is found in the mystecetes: the group of whales that include the famous giants such as humpbacks, bowheads and blue whales.
ref: 2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of mysticete.
mystecetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystecete
haemocoelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemocoelic.
aetiocetid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aetiocetids
Senses: examples: text: A 25-million-year-old fossil whale from Washington State, specimen NMV P252567 – or ‘Alfred’ to his friends – belongs to an extinct group of whales called aetiocetids.
ref: 2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A member of the extinct family of baleen whales Aetiocetidae.
aetiocetids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aetiocetid
hamartomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hamartomas
heterochaperone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterochaperones
Etymology: From hetero- + chaperone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterodimer formed from two chaperones
heterococcolithophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterococcolithophores
Etymology: From hetero- + coccolithophore.
Senses: glosses: A heteromorphic (diploid) coccolithophore
Related terms: heterococcolith
heterococcolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterococcoliths
Etymology: From hetero- + coccolith.
Senses: glosses: A radial coccolith produced by a heterococcolithophore
Related terms: holococcolith
heterococcoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterococcolith
-dactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From French -dactyle, from Latin -dactylus, ultimately from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: digits
heteroprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of two or more different proteins
raw_tags: of a complex
Related terms: homoprotein
homoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of a single type of protein
raw_tags: of a complex
Related terms: heteroprotein
holococcolithophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holococcolithophores
Etymology: From holo- + coccolithophore.
Senses: glosses: A haploid coccolithophore (that produces holococcoliths)
holococcolithophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holococcolithophore
holoplastocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoplastocyanins
Etymology: From holo- + plastocyanin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The form of a plastocyanin containing a bound copper atom
big dick energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-dick energy
Senses: examples: text: The Spice Girls had Big Dick Energy in abundance, years before Twitter coined the term.
ref: 2018, Lauren Bravo, chapter 5, in What would the Spice Girls do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN:
text: I didn't really want Brunhild being associated with big dick energy. We were just a fledgling nation, so it’d be bad for our image.
ref: 2018, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 11, →ISBN:
text: “Told you so.” My brother finished his drink and grabbed both their empty glasses. “He needs to quit worrying about upsetting people and use that big dick energy he’s got for his own good.”
ref: 2019, Kristin Harte, Penance: A Vigilante Justice Novel, Kinship Press,, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: BDE
antonyms: small dick energy
glosses: Unassuming self-confidence.
Related terms: big divorce energy
holothurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holothurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sea cucumber (class Holothuroidea)
holothurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holothurid
hydrocorals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocoral
hydroxylipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxylipids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydroxy derivative of a lipid
hydroxylipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxylipid
hyperaccuracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + accuracy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hyperaccurate
hypercytotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + cytotoxic.
Senses: glosses: More than usually cytotoxic.
Related terms: hypercytotoxicity
hypercytotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + cytotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hypercytotoxic
hyperpallial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + pallial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hyperpallium
hypocytotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + cytotoxic.
Senses: glosses: Less than usually cytotoxic.
Related terms: hypocytotoxicity
hypocytotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + cytotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hypocytotoxic
hypomannosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + mannosylated.
Senses: glosses: Less than usually mannosylated
Related terms: hypomannosylation
hypovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoviruses
Etymology: From hypo- + virus.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Hypovirus
Derived terms: alphahypovirus
immunovirologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of immunovirological.
internidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + nidal.
Senses: glosses: Between nests
intrakinetochore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + kinetochore.
Senses: glosses: Within a kinetochore
iodinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of iodonium.
juxtacapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + capsular.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alongside a capsule
kifunensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kifunensine.
kinetogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetograms
Etymology: From kineto- + gram.
Senses: glosses: The image produced by a kinetograph
kinetograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetogram
kisspeptinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kisspeptin + -ergic.
Senses: glosses: Activated by kisspeptin
lecitotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lecithotrophic.
lickometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lickometers
Senses: glosses: A device that detects and records contact between a caged animal and the spout of its water bottle
Related terms: lickometered
lipogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lipogenic.
lipokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipokines
Etymology: From lipo- + -kine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hormone that controls the metabolism of lipids
lipopolysaccharidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lipo- + polysaccharidic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to lipopolysaccharides
lobulogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lobule + -o- + genesis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The creation and development of (mammary) lobules
lymphonodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lympho- + nodular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to lymph nodes
macrospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrospecies
Etymology: From macro- + species.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively large, polymorphic species.
magnetofection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: magnetic transfection
mediolittoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medio- + littoral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: medial and littoral
meridionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meridional + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of fish to warmer, more southern waters
microdifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdifferentiations
Etymology: From micro- + differentiation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Very small-scale differentiation, typically leading to speciation
microphthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælmɪk
Etymology: From micro- + -phthalmic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microphthalmia
monobiotinylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + biotinylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: biotinylated with a single biotin group
multicystronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of multicistronic.
mycobacteriologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycobacteriologists
Etymology: From myco- + bacteriologist.
Senses: glosses: A bacteriologist whose speciality is mycobacteria
mysidacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mysidaceans
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the order Mysidacea.
mysidaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mysidacean
soyboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soyboy
Songzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sungtze
form: Sung-tzu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 松滋 (Sōngzī).
Senses: examples: text: Songzi, located on Jianghan Plain in southwest Hubei province on the southern side of the Yangtze River, had a population of 896,800 at the end of 1999. Songzi is a relatively well-developed agricultural county with fertile land that has produced the famous “Babao Cotton” for hundreds of years.
ref: 2005, Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:
text: Leonhard and another American took an eerie four-hour drive from Songzi City to Wuhan airport to get out. For hours they were the only car on the freeway, she said, with trucks taking supplies to the idled city.
ref: 2020 February 6, Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield, William Wan, “For Americans, a nightmare escaping Wuhan, then 14 days of quarantine”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2020, Health:
glosses: A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
efflagitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efflagitations
form: flagitation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin efflāgitātiō.
Senses: examples: text: Some men knowing this to bee their prerogative, […] that their Wives are bound by Gods Law to submit to their manly spirits, and riper judgements, may perchance out of their earthlinesse, and intolerable worldly-mindednesse, […], take the advantage and unconscionablely stand off, and refuse to give their consents unto their wives pious efflagitations and intreaties.
ref: 1635, Richard Bernard, “Chap. VI. That wives are to doe good workes”, in The Ready Way to Good Works, Or, A Treatise of Charitie, London, pages 75–76:
text: Whence then proceeds this strong oppugnance to / My faire proposition, efflagitation?
ref: 1657, G. G. D'Ouvilly, The False Favourite Disgrac'd, London, act III, scene 1, page 58:
text: With candor attend to her efflagitation, / […]
ref: 1776, George Wythe, in W. Edwin Hemphill, “George Wythe Courts the Muses”, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 9 (3rd series), No. 3 (Jul., 1952), page 342
text: Into the noisome caverns of the Ghouls; into the dew-gemmed bower of the lady fairies, you have extended your efflagitations.
ref: 1911, The Irish Homestead, volume 18, numbers 26–52, Dublin, page 792:
glosses: An earnest request, an entreaty.
examples: text: This temper of solicitation, or more properly efflagitation, amongst his other qualifications, had greatly conduced to procure for him and his children some honourable and lucrative employments and reversions, […]
ref: 1777, Patrick Duigenan, Lachrymae academicae : or, The present deplorable state of the College of the holy and undivided Trinity, of Queen Elizabeth, near Dublin, Dublin, page 16:
text: A laborer's wife was visited fifteen times by people of importance who lived near her in order to induce her to bring over her husband to the Tory cause.[…] Canvassing like this is not the mere suggestion of arguments in favor of the cause represented by the canvasser; it is not even solicitation. It is efflagitation.
ref: 1910 April 9, D. C. Pedder, “Intensive Electioneering”, in The Living Age, volume CCLXV, number 3431, Boston: The Living Age Company, page 100:
glosses: A constant and insistent demanding, importunity.
Related terms: efflagitate
efflagitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˌflæd͡ʒɪˈteɪʃəns/
ipa: /əˌflæd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪʃəns/
Senses: glosses: plural of efflagitation
nanolipoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale lipoprotein particle
neopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neopeptides
Etymology: From neo- + peptide.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic peptide, especially one designed to act as an antibiotic
neuroexcitotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + excitotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of excitotoxicity.
synonyms: word: excitotoxicity
Related terms: neuroexcitotoxic
octasaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octasaccharide
party store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party stores
Senses: qualifier: Michigan
glosses: A liquor store, especially one that also serves a convenience store.
glosses: A shop that sells or hires fancy dress and other goods for parties.
oculonasally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oculo- + nasally.
Senses: glosses: In an oculonasal manner
oenocytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oenocytoids
Etymology: From oenocyte + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A large cell, in the blood of some insects, that resembles an oenocyte
oenocytoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oenocytoid
orthologously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From orthologous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In regard to, or by means of orthology
THU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tsinghua University.
synonyms: word: Tsinghua University
ovariolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ovariole + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an ovariole
Tsinghua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 清華 /清华 (Qīnghuá).
Senses: glosses: Tsinghua University
New Zealand wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Zealand wrens
Senses: examples: text: Suboscines (Tyranni) are mostly found in the Neotropics, whereas the small New Zealand wrens (Acanthisitti) are limited to, you guessed it, New Zealand.
ref: 2016 October 19, Hanneke Meijer, “Why you can thank geology for your morning songbird chorus”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A passerine bird of the family Acanthisittidae, including two living and several extinct species in four or five genera.
New Zealand wrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Zealand wren
KAIST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
parajunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + junctional.
Senses: glosses: On opposite sides of a junction
paravascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of glymphatic.
synonyms: word: glymphatic
passeriforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passeriform
patagornithine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patagornithines
Senses: glosses: Any extinct bird of the phorusrhacid subfamily Patagornithinae
patagornithines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patagornithine
pericytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + cytoplasmic.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the cytoplasm
perisynaptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From peri- + synaptically.
Senses: glosses: In a perisynaptic manner
phaeomelanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phaeomelanin
probainognathian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probainognathians
Senses: examples: text: Their evidence suggests that fur and whiskers appeared early on in the ancestry of mammals, in the earliest probainognathians.
ref: 2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A members of the Probainognathia clade of therapsid animals.
probainognathians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probainognathian
parietal foramen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parietal foramina
Senses: examples: text: Loss of the parietal foramen is a trait that we see very early in the evolutionary line leading to mammals.
ref: 2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An opening in the parietal bone for the emissary vein.
Cletus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkliːt.əs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Cletus, short form of the papal name Anacletus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάκλητος (anáklētos, “invoked”), from ἀνακαλέω (anakaléō) + -τός (-tós).
Senses: examples: text: One of those things with a wooden handle and garishly serrated edges, used by guys with names like Cletus or Bobby Ray.
ref: 2011, Veronica Wolff, Isle of Night: The Watchers, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
grey junglefowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey junglefowl
form: grey junglefowls
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, […] the gene for yellow legs, an^([sic]) ubiquitous characteristic of domesticated chickens, can be traced back to the closely related grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii) (Eriksson et al., 2008) rather than the red junglefowl.
ref: 2016 August 24, Hanneke Meijer, “How did the chicken, a shy, flight-impaired forest bird, migrate around the globe?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A species of fowl, Gallus sonneratii, endemic to India.
cauda equina syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: horsetail syndrome
glosses: A condition resulting from damage to the cauda equina, with symptoms including low back pain, pain that radiates down the leg, numbness around the anus, and loss of bowel or bladder control.
siphunculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sīphunculus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix, of participial origin).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of siphunculated.
endosiphuncular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + siphuncular.
Senses: glosses: Within the siphuncle.
intrasiphuncular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + siphuncular.
Senses: glosses: Within the siphuncle.
WDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure.
glosses: Initialism of Women's Declaration International.
Caryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A 20th-century spelling variant of Karen.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Karyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A 20th-century spelling variant of Karen.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
cistellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cistella
dill water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stomachic and carminative made from dill.
phaeophytin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaeophytins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pheophytin.
photoavoidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + avoidance.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: avoidance of exposure to light
rudimentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudimentations
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The process of an organ being reduced to a rudimentary form.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The rudimentary form that results from this process.
rudimentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudimentation
frontiering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frontier
photobactericidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + bactericidal.
Senses: glosses: That kills photobacteria
glosses: That is bactericidal on exposure to light
paytable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paytables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pay table.
pay tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pay table
photosensitizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photosensitization
smithy coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smithy coals
Senses: glosses: A kind of small coal much used by smiths.
smithy coals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smithy coal
picoflagellates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoflagellate