cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
panarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panarchies
Etymology: From pan- + -archy. Coined independently in many different contexts.
Senses: examples: 1860 article by “Panarchy” de Puydt
glosses: The individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale.
examples: text: In panarchies, transformational change can be generated from below or from above.
ref: 2001, Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling, Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.
examples: text: The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms.
ref: 2006, W.A. Knight, “Plurilateral Multilateralism: Canada's Emerging International Policy?”, in Andrew F. Cooper, Dane Rowlands, editors, Canada Among Nations, →ISBN, page 100:
topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.
examples: text: If everyone all at once wanted to know who won the Stanley Cup in 1968 they could have the information simultaneously; cyberspace as the site of Unamuno's panarchy, where each one is king.
ref: 2001, David Trend, Reading Digital Culture, →ISBN, page 148:
topics: anarchism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.
examples: text: These contentions give rise to systems of political philosophy which range all the way from anarchy to panarchy; from the doctrine that government should do nothing to the doctrine that it should do everything.
ref: 1909, Samuel Eagle Forman, A Good Word for Democracy, page 91:
glosses: Rule of all; absolute or total rule.
examples: text: Some held that God, and all the heavenly powers, / As with the starry panarchy of space, / Were of one essence, like divine and high;
ref: 1839, Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem, published 1860, page 369:
glosses: An all-encompassing realm.
Related terms: panarch
panarchic
panarchism
hemerophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemerophytes
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any cultivated plant, especially one introduced from elsewhere
haplophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haplo- (“single; simple”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the normal number of chromosomes characteristic of the organism's gametes
haplophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haplophytes
Etymology: From haplo- (“single; simple”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
gypsophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsophytes
Etymology: From gypsum + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that tolerates or thrives in soil rich in chalk or limestone
glycophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycophytes
Etymology: From glyco- (“sugar”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that cannot tolerate relatively high concentrations of salt
Derived terms: glycophytic
glaucophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glaucophytes
Senses: glosses: Any freshwater alga of the phylum Glaucophyta.
Synonyms: glaucocystid
glaucocystophyte
ginkgophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginkgophytes
Etymology: From ginkgo + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the division Ginkgophyta; in reality, just the ginkgo
genophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genophytes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that loses all of its above-ground parts during winter.
exophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exophytes
Etymology: From exo- + -phyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any external plant parasite.
Derived terms: exophytic
eustigmatophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eustigmatophytes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any alga of the class Eustigmatophyceae
euglenophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euglenophytes
Etymology: Euglena + -phyte (“plant”), from Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + γλήνη (glḗnē, “eye”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any aquatic flagellate alga of the phylum Euglenozoa.
ergasiophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergasiophytes
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἐργᾰσίᾱ (ergăsíā, “work, production”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant deliberately introduced to a region for cultivation.
Related terms: ergasiophygophyte
eophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eophytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “early in the day”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil plant from the Silurian age
Derived terms: eophytic
entophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entophytes
Etymology: From ento- (“inside”) + -phyte (“plant, growth”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant or fungus growing as a parasite within another organism.
Synonyms: endophyte
Derived terms: entophytic
entophytous
entomophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomophytes
Etymology: From entomo- (“insect”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant growing as a parasite within an insect or its larva
emophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emophytes
Etymology: An unknown root + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that grows completely submerged.
embryophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryophytes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from translingual Embryophyta. By surface analysis, embryo- (“embryo”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the subkingdom Embryophyta, which includes most land plants
Related terms: embryophytic
edaphophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edaphophytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔδαφος (édaphos, “ground”) + -phyte.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: any plant that grows with its roots in the soil and shoots in the air
ectophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectophytes
Etymology: From ecto- (“outside”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that lives as a parasite on the surface of another organism
Derived terms: ectophytic
NVRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NVRAMs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of non-volatile random access memory.
non-volatile random access memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: word: NVRAM
word: non-volatile memory
glosses: Synonym of non-volatile memory
read only memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of read-only memory.
programmable read only memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programmable read only memories
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of programmable read-only memory.
RCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RCIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of residual current indicator.
RCI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
coordinate_terms: CBC
RC
glosses: Initialism of Radio Canada International.
Related terms: CBC
SRC
RC
Rad-Can
VOC
VOA
BBC
RAI
astonie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of astony.
GPF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Global Peace Festival.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of general protection fault, a type of interrupt produced by IA32 CPUs.
diplophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diplophytes
Etymology: From diplo- + -phyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: sporophyte
dinophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinophytes
Etymology: From dino- (“whirling”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: dinoflagellate
dictyochophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictyochophytes
Etymology: Dictyocha + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any axodine alga
axodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axodines
Senses: examples: text: The chrysophytes, bacillariophytes, and dictyochophytes (axodines; a group of heterokonts) date from about 100 million years ago, and despite the mass extinctions 65.5 million years ago, many species still flourish.
ref: 2017, Louise Eaton, Examining Fungi and Protists:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any unicellular heterokont alga of the class Actinochrysophyceae.
dermophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermophytes
Etymology: From dermo- (“skin”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: dermatophyte
Related terms: dermophytic
cycadophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycadophytes
Etymology: From cycad + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the division Cycadophyta; a cycad.
Derived terms: cycadophytinous
cyanophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪənəʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: cyanophytes
Etymology: From cyano- (“dark blue-green”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the class Cyanophyceae.
topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: cyanobacterium
cyanobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiəm
Forms: form: cyanobacteria
Etymology: From cyano- + bacterium.
Senses: examples: text: At some point in the first billion years of life, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, learned to tap into a freely available resource – the hydrogen that exists in spectacular abundance in water.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 262:
text: Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria.
ref: 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 91:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: blue-green alga
blue-green bacterium
glosses: Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria.
Hypernyms: bacterium
Derived terms: picocyanobacterium
Related terms: Cyanobacteria
cuprophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuprophytes
Etymology: From cupro- (“copper”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that tolerates or thrives in soil with a high level of copper
cryptophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪptə(ʊ)fʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪptəˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: cryptophytes
Etymology: From crypto- (“hidden”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant whose buds overwinter either below ground, or under water
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cryptomonad
Derived terms: hemicryptophyte
hydrohemicryptophyte
cryophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryophytes
Etymology: From cryo- (“cold, freezing”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant whose buds overwinter below ground
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that grows on ice or snow
Related terms: cryophytic
cormophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːməʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: cormophytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”) -phyte (“plant”); see also corm (“swollen underground stem”), Latin cormus.
Senses: examples: text: Very careful developmental or anatomical investigation may be required to show that the variously-constructed organs of many cormophytes are derived by the metamorphosis of the three primary organs, root, stem, and leaf, and to ascertain with which of these any particular structure is really homologous.
ref: 1940, Edgar Nelson Transeau, Homer Cleveland Sampson, Lewis Hanford Tiffany, Textbook of botany, Part 1, page 156:
text: Botany used to recognize, if vaguely, these two kinds of plant, namely the thallophyte which grew and absorbed superficially, and the cormophyte, which is the root-shoot system with internal accommodation.
ref: 2002, E. J. H. Corner, The Life of Plants, page 108:
text: The morphology of cormophytes exhibits considerable variations in size, appearance of the various parts, and duration of the life cycle.
ref: 2008, Giulia Caneva, Maria Pia Nugari, M. P. Nugari, O. Salvadori, editors, Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodeterioration and Conservation, page 91:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte
Coordinate terms: thallophyte
Derived terms: cormophytic
coprophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprophytes
Etymology: From copro- (“dung”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that lives on dung.
Related terms: coprozoite
coniferophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coniferophytes
Etymology: From conifer + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: conifer
chrysophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysophytes
Etymology: Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: glosses: Any golden alga of the class Chrysophyceae
chromophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromophytes
Etymology: From chromo- + -phyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any alga of the taxon Chromista.
chomophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊməʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: chomophytes
Etymology: Ancient Greek χῶμα (khôma, “heaped earth”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: chasmophyte
glosses: Any plant that grows in rock fissures or crevices.
Related terms: chomophytic
chondrophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrophytes
Etymology: From chondro- + -phyte.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal mass of cartilage that can develop on a bone
UUCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol, a file transfer protocol used on networks, traditionally for Usenet and e-mail transfers.
chasmophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæzməʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: chasmophytes
Etymology: From chasm + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: chomophyte
charophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹəʊˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹəˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.oʊˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.əˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: charophytes
Etymology: From translingual Charophyta by analogy to chara (“an unknown root”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: glosses: Any green alga of the division Charophyta
Related terms: charophytic
chamerophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamerophytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí, “ground”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any herbaceous or woody plant whose buds overwinter just above soil level
Synonyms: chamaephyte
chamaephyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæmiːfaɪt/
Forms: form: chamaephytes
Etymology: From Danish kamæfyt, chamæfyt, equivalent to chamae- (“ground”) + -phyte (“plant”) (first element from Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí, “on the ground”)).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: chamerophyte
glosses: Any low perennial plant whose buds overwinter just above soil level
depanneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depanneurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dépanneur.
calciphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calciphytes
Etymology: From calci- (“calcium”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: calcicole
tabagie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabagies
Senses: glosses: A traditional festivity among the Algonquin peoples of Eastern Canada.
glosses: A room for smoking tobacco and socializing.
genotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genotypic
form: most genotypic
Etymology: From genotype + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: genotypical
glosses: Of or pertaining to a genotype
Derived terms: epigenotypic
genotypically
haplogenotypic
intergenotypic
intragenotypic
isogenotypic
pangenotypic
subgenotypic
CIAU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union: now called CIS - Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
eating irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But I had the unmitigated pleasure of watching a family of four Chinese struggle to use knives and forks to their bacon and eggs. These were the first eating irons I had seen in a long while.
ref: 1999, Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam, →ISBN, pages 24–25:
text: Eating irons in hand, we plonked ourselves down at the round six-seating dining table and thrashed out the ethics of my decision to change football teams.
ref: 2000, Shane Maloney, Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery, →ISBN, page 25:
text: There was even one man in the dining room sitting up at the table with his eating irons at the ready, tapping impatiently on the table, all the while gazing vacantly into the middle distance, whistling a sad little ditty slightly out of key.
ref: 2005, Lilian MacDonald, Murdoch MacDonald, Phoenix in a Bottle, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Knife, fork and spoon; cutlery.
artemisinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː.tɪˈmiː.sɪn.ɪn/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.təˈmɪs.n̩.ɪn/
Forms: form: artemisinins
Etymology: Blend of artemisia + quinin(e).
Senses: examples: text: Artemisinin (Qinghaosu) isolated from Artemisia annua is a novel sesquiterpene lactone bearing an unusual endoperoxide function.
ref: 1994 May, Mankil Jung, “Current Developments in the Chemistry of Artemisinin and Related Compounds”, in Current Medicinal Chemistry, page 35:
text: The practical value of artemisinin itself as a therapeutic agent has been limited by several factors, however. Artemisinin has a high rate of recrudescence [8], poor oral activity [8], a short half-life in plasma [9], and limited solubility in both water and oil [10].
ref: 1998, Dee Ann Casteel, “Synthesis of Simple Bridged Bicyclic Trioxanes as Analogs of the Antimalarial Natural Product, Atemisinin”, in Attaur Rahman, editor, New Trends in Natural Product, page 30:
text: The emerging resistance to artemisinin is partly due to the complexity of the parasite and the unstoppable nature of its ability to evolve. But it is also the direct result of greed, for which there is no drug or vaccine.
In early 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the discovery of malaria parasites along the Thai-Cambodia border that were proving resistant to commonly used derivatives of artemisinin called artesunate and anthemeter.
ref: 2010, Bill Shore, The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men, page 222:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An antimalarial drug derived from the sweet wormwood shrub, Artemisia annua, found as the active ingredient in traditional Chinese medical herbal treatment for malaria, chemically a sesquiterpene lactone - C₁₅H₂₂O₅.
Synonyms: qinghaosu
Derived terms: english: antimalarial agent
translation: antimalarial agent
word: arte-
word: artemisone
word: dihydroartemisinin
Related terms: Artemisia
APEX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apex
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of advance purchase excursion (an air fare).
topics: medicine
nephrology
sciences
glosses: Acronym of accelerated peritoneal equilibration examination.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of acetone peroxide.
Derived terms: APEX time
APEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: trade union
glosses: Acronym of Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff.
hardstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdstændɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌstændɪŋ/
Forms: form: hardstandings
Etymology: From hard + standing.
Senses: examples: text: The caravans' concrete hardstanding was demolished by the council soon after.
text: The movement of certain types of lorries when loaded, and certain other transport is forbidden. On no account are vehicles to be moved off a good road or hard standing.
ref: 1940 January 29, Peter Lawless, “2 Days of Thaw, Rain, Ice & Melting Snow”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 26412, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 6:
text: "Thanks to the deck of an articulated lorry being similar to the rail vehicle, all we needed was some hardstanding and a bridging plate. Sometimes it pays to keep it simple," he says.
ref: 2021 September 8, Anthony Lambert, “On track for express parcels delivery”, in RAIL, number 939, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of hardstand.
close-stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: close-stools
form: close stoole
form: close stool
form: closestool
Etymology: From Middle English close stol, equivalent to close (“enclosed”, adjective) + stool.
Senses: examples: text: other Princes, […] to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber
ref: , Folio Society. 2006, p.17
text: […] be careful and diligent to all strangers, and see that they lack nothing in their Chambers, which your Mistress or Lady will allow, and that your close stools and Chamber pots be duely emptied, and kept clean and sweet.
ref: 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 166:
text: […] being apprised of their ambush, I got home another way, and by the help of my landlord’s apprentice, emptied a close stool out of the garret window, which did great execution upon them […]
ref: 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 6, in The Adventures of Roderick Random, volume 1, London: J. Osborn, page 32:
text: "No more midnight treks to the outhouse. No more close-stools or thundermugs a feature of even the most exalted houses in Armethalieh."
ref: 2003, Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory, The Outstretched Shadow:
glosses: A chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box; a commode.
benthophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benthophytes
Etymology: From bentho- (“related to the benthos (flora and fauna of the deep)”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that grows on the bed of a river or other body of water
Related terms: phytobenthos
bacillariophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacillariophytes
Etymology: Bacillaria + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any alga of the class Bacillariophyceae; a diatom
broad-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: broader-mouthed
form: broadest-mouthed
Senses: glosses: Having a broad mouth.
examples: text: My selfe, that am so broad-mouthed and lavish in speeches, am notwithstanding naturally touched with that bashfulnesse.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, p.17
glosses: Outspoken; rude.
aromaphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromaphytes
Etymology: From aroma + -phyte.
Senses: glosses: Any botanical substance used in aromatherapy.
antophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antophytes
Etymology: From anto- (“flower”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: anthophyte
anecophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anecophytes
Etymology: From an- (“not”) + eco- (“environment”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant found only in human-created habitats
alleage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alleages
form: alleaging
form: alleaged
form: alleaged
Senses: examples: text: he humbly calleth for mercy, alleaging that he had justly murthered the murtherer of his father, whom his good chance was to finde there, averring by good witnesses, before them all, that in the Citie of the Leontines, his father had been proditoriously slaine by him, on whom he had now revenged himselfe.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.221
glosses: Obsolete spelling of allege.
heartwarmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heartwarmingly
form: most heartwarmingly
Etymology: From heartwarming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heartwarming manner.
cachectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The polypeptide hormone cachexin or tumor necrosis factor.
cachexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cachectin.
tumor necrosis factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumor necrosis factors
form: tumour necrosis factor
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several polypeptide hormones, produced by macrophages, that can destroy some cancer cells.
cacosmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caco- + -osmia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of perceiving odours generally as bad, or sensing imagined vile odours.
Related terms: coprosmia
necrosmia
parosmia
carbonylhemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carbonyl + hemoglobin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carboxyhemoglobin
carboxyhemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxyhemoglobins
form: carboxyhaemoglobin
Etymology: From carboxy + hemoglobin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The stable complex of carbon monoxide with hemoglobin; it prevents the normal complexing with oxygen and thus leads to anoxia
cardiotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cardiotoxic
form: most cardiotoxic
Etymology: From cardio- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Chemically damaging to the tissues of the heart.
Related terms: cardiotoxicity
cardiotoxin
chelator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chelators
Etymology: From chelate + -or.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chelating agent
Derived terms: bifunctional chelator
chelating agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chelating agents
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that reacts with a metal ion to produce a chelate.
chemesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + -esthesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Any sensation produced when a chemical compound activates a particular receptor.
Related terms: chemesthetic
chemosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoses
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice, fluid, humor”), with reference to edema. By surface analysis, chemo- + -osis, although this is in the nature of a false friend, as the word is not specific to exogenous chemical–induced cases of conjunctival irritation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Swelling and/or (especially) edema of the conjunctiva of the eye.
wikipedia: international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: chemotic
chemosterilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemosterilizers
Etymology: From chemo- + sterilizer.
Senses: glosses: Any substance used to cause sterility in insects, rodents or other animals; a chemosterilant
chronotoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + toxicology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the interactions between toxic substances and biorhythms
Related terms: chronotoxic
chronotoxicity
ciguateratoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciguateratoxins
Etymology: From ciguatera + toxin.
Senses: synonyms: ciguatoxin
glosses: Any of several toxins found in some carnivorous fish that have been contaminated by the alga Gambierdiscus toxicus.
panatheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + atheism.
Senses: glosses: The assertion that no god or gods exist and that then nothing can be correctly termed holy or be considered sacred.
glosses: The belief in "all atheism"; the position that all people are atheists to one or more god models.
kippering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kipper
kippering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: An owner describes their "endearing habit of nosewrinkling, woo-woo-wooing, and kippering (walking on front legs, sliding rear like a seal)."
ref: 2011, Chris Walkowicz, Choosing a Dog For Dummies:
text: Kippering is a trait in young Sussex where the dog propels themselves forward with their forelegs while dragging their rear legs extended behind them. Some adult dogs will also do this and it is considered normal for the breed.
ref: 2015, Ross D. Clark, Medical, Genetic & Behavioral Risk Factors of Sussex Spaniels and Clumber Spaniels:
text: Many Sussex like to propel themselves forward with their front legs while dragging their hind legs outstretched behind them—this is known as kippering and it is a normal breed trait.
ref: 2017, The American Kennel Club's Meet the Breeds:
glosses: The trait of walking on the front legs while dragging the hind legs (applied to a dog).
examples: text: The latter is so often remote from where the tube has been that it is difficult to see how any drainage short of “kippering” the patient could eliminate it.
ref: 1922, Year Book of General Surgery, page 267:
text: The suprapubic route (suprapubic catheter [SPC]) is preferred over the urethral because of pressure necrosis of the ventral surface of the distal penile urethra in men (acquired hypospadias —“kippering” of the penis) and pressure necrosis of the bladder neck in women, which becomes so wide that urine leaks around the catheter ("patulous" urethra)
ref: 2010, David M. Albala, Leonard G. Gomella, Allen F. Morey, Oxford American Handbook of Urology:
text: It is commonly thought to be due to urological surgery and particularly instrumentation but it can occur without this, such as with the kippering of the urethra that one sees with an indwelling catheter (Fig. 4.6.9), or the damage to the shaft of the penis and the urethra within caused by protracted condom drainage.
ref: 2017, Freddie C. Hamdy, Ian Eardley, Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery, page 385:
glosses: The development of an acquired hypospadias, usually as a result of long use of a catheter.
kippered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kipper
kippered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kippered
form: most kippered
Senses: examples: text: Our writers of history have been aroused from “ their somnolent antiquarian busy-work on kippered events and are feeling the force of living ones and learning what it means to get in the study of the present inspiration and interest for assimilating a knowledge of the past.
ref: 1927, Ralph W. Pringle, Methods with Adolescents, page 253:
text: At first I thought perhaps my students were writing this kind of kippered prose because they were attempting scenes and subjects that they knew nothing about.
ref: 1963, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer - Volume 76:
text: and he caused offence by banging the drums and beating the cymbals at a dance in Lucknow, and sitting at table beside pretty ingénues rather than kippered memsahibs of suitable seniority.
ref: 2016, Piers Brendon, Edward VIII:
text: She was, at heart, as dry, as kippered, as intentionalist, and coldly selfconscious as the driest of Egyptian book-keepers in a great merchant firm at Corinth.
ref: 2019, Emil Reich, Nights with the Gods:
text: Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago.
ref: 2019, Robert Baldwin Ross, Masques & Phases:
glosses: Stiff and lacking vitality; stale.
examples: text: Cigar clenched between his knuckles, Johnnie Whiteside patted Gordon's knee. 'How d'you feel, old spud?' 'Slightly kippered,' Gordon answered. 'Not too kippered?' said Eric.
ref: 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Asking Price:
text: He was done for, you know . . . quite kippered . . . The General's words dinned in his brain.
ref: 2015, Leon Garfield, The Drummer Boy, page 85:
glosses: Worn out; tired.
Derived terms: kippered beef
unkippered
kilns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiln
kilns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kiln
FLOSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: FLOSS has proven to be an extremely valuable tool for accelerating research in various fields of IT and engineering in order to address the needs of society in the future.
ref: 2019, Brian Fitzgerald, Audris Mockus, Minghui Zhou, Towards Engineering Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Ecosystems for Impact and Sustainability, Springer, →ISBN, page 121:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: FOSS
OSS
glosses: Abbreviation of free/libre/open source software.
steamiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of steamy: most steamy
syndetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈdɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From Latin syndeticus, from Ancient Greek συνδετικός (sundetikós), from σύνδεσις (súndesis, “binding”) + -κός (-kós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”).
Senses: examples: text: Guns and butter is a syndetic phrase.
ref: 1970, Mats Ryden, Coordination of Relative Clauses in Sixteenth Century English, page 73:
text: Asymmetry in pronominal sequencing is a recurrent feature of syndetic coordination, though with considerable variation in relation to literary genre.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or related to syndeton, the use of a conjunction.
examples: text: With the syndetic juxtaposition of distinct members, the article is not often repeated.
ref: 1874, Clair James Grece translating Eduard Adolf F. Maetzner as An English Grammar
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of connective, serving to connect.
synonyms: word: connective
word: serving to connect
examples: text: Syndetic, applied to an alphabetical subject catalogue or dictionary catalogue which includes cross-references as connecting links between subjects.
ref: 1958, Thomas Landau, Encyclopaedia of Librarianship, page 299:
text: The dictionary includes syndetic references.
qualifier: library science
glosses: Synonym of crossreferenced.
synonyms: word: crossreferenced
examples: text: The gap between successive members of a syndetic set may vary but is always less than some specific value: i.e., there is an integer n such that {x,x+1,x+2,⋯,x+n}∩S≠∅ for any x∈N.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having bounded gaps between its terms.
Coordinate terms: sense: math
word: thick
Derived terms: piecewise syndetic
syndetical
syndetically
syndeticity
thickly syndetic
Related terms: asyndetic
polysyndetic
syndesis
syndeton
syndical
stonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɒŋk/
ipa: /stɑŋk/
ipa: /stɔŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: stonks
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly of imitative origin. Compare stomp.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A heavy artillery bombardment.
glosses: A large or intense penile erection.
Derived terms: stonk-on
stonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɒŋk/
ipa: /stɑŋk/
ipa: /stɔŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: stonks
form: stonking
form: stonked
form: stonked
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly of imitative origin. Compare stomp.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To unleash a heavy artillery bombardment.
glosses: To overwhelm or trounce; to defeat decisively.
Derived terms: stonker
stonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɒŋk/
ipa: /stɑŋk/
ipa: /stɔŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: stonks
Etymology: Deliberate misspelling of stock, possibly under the influence of stink in reference to stocks relating to amateur or bad decisions, or financial loss. Compare stronk (“strong”), thonk (“think”).
Senses: examples: text: Stonk is essentially just a funny way to say “stock” – and once you understand that, it explains everything else that has happened.
ref: [2021 January 28, Shelley Hepworth, “What is GameStop, where do the memes come in, and who is winning or losing?”, in The Guardian:
text: Long before Reddit, the Yahoo message boards of the late 1990s democratized the expression of strong opinions about stocks (they didn’t call them “stonks” in those days).
ref: [2021 February 4, Neil Irwin, “How to Win at the Stock Market by Being Lazy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Other so-called “stonks” – an intentional misspelling of “stocks” – favoured by retail traders on sites such as Reddit’s WallStreetBets also shot higher.
ref: [2021 February 25, Mark Sweney, “GameStop shares surge again as trading frenzy returns”, in The Guardian:
text: It’s all part of our wild new YOLO FOMO LOL economy, where stonks only go up, memes count as financial advice and stimmies buy Hemis.
ref: 2021 April 25, Erin Griffith, “We’re All Crypto People Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A stock, especially a bullish one.
glosses: A profitable thing or scheme.
Related terms: meme stock
sinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinologists
form: Sinologist
Etymology: From sinology (“study of China”) + -ist (“(agent)”). Equivalent to sino- (“China”) + -logist (“student of, expert on”).
Senses: glosses: A student or expert in sinology.
tight-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: more tight-knit
form: most tight-knit
form: tightknit
Etymology: From tight + knit.
Senses: examples: text: Oral histories describe how ancient angara were tribal and nomadic before settling in cities. Many of them still live in large, tight-knit families and workplaces have a guild-like organizational structure.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara Codex entry:
synonyms: close-knit
glosses: Strongly pulled together, tightly knit.
tragicomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tragicomical
form: most tragicomical
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a tragicomedy
Derived terms: tragicomically
tragicomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tragicomically
form: most tragicomically
Etymology: From tragicomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a tragicomic manner
underutilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underutilizations
Etymology: From under- + utilization.
Senses: glosses: The state of being underutilized
warre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warres
Senses: examples: text: The Poets olde in their fonde fables faine, / That mightie Mars is god of Warre and Strife, / These astronomers thinke, where Mars doth raigne, / That all debate and discorde must he rife,
ref: 1572, George Gascoigne, Dulce Bellum Inexpertis:
text: Out Of Civil States, There Is Alwayes Warre Of Every One Against Every One
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of war.
Yogacharya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yogacharyas
Etymology: From Sanskrit योगाचार्य (yogācārya), itself from योग (yoga) + आचार्य (acharya, “teacher”).
Senses: glosses: A teacher of yoga used as a respectful title
Jack out of doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the Lord Julio Romero at Yvoy, having committed this oversight to issue out of his holde, to parlie with the Constable of France, at his returne found the Towne taken, and himselfe jack-out-of-doors.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, p.27
glosses: A homeless person, or vagrant.
in ure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in ure.
Senses: examples: text: As we see some idle-fallow grounds, if they be fat and fertile, to bring foorth store and sundrie rootes of wilde and unprofitable weeds, and that to keep them in ure we must subject and imploy them with certaine seeds for use and service.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, p.30
glosses: In use, in practice.
in ure
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in ure.
Senses: glosses: Into use, into practice.
biglie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biglie
form: most biglie
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bigly.
biglie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more biglie
form: most biglie
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bigly.
dimerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dimerize
dimerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dimerized
form: most dimerized
Senses: glosses: That have been reacted to form a dimer
Derived terms: photodimerized
undimerized
haemoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoproteins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
hemeprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemeproteins
form: haemoprotein
form: hemoprotein
Etymology: From heme + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any conjugated protein containing heme as the prosthetic group.
heteromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heteromer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a heteromer.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing neurons in the spinal cord that have processes passing through to the opposite side of the cord.
Derived terms: diheteromeric
hexaheteromeric
multiheteromeric
oligoheteromeric
triheteromeric
heteromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteromerics
Etymology: From heteromer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Such a neuron.
forsomuch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English forsomuch, equivalent to for + so + much. Compare Middle English forsomykill.
Senses: glosses: Forasmuch.
Derived terms: forsomuch as
intracellularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intracellular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The majority of the Legionella cells in water are believed to live intracellularly as protozoan parasites.
glosses: In an intracellular manner.
intratumoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + tumoral.
Senses: glosses: Within a tumor.
Derived terms: intratumorally
metalloporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloporphyrins
Etymology: From metallo- + porphyrin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, such as heme, formed by a combination of a porphyrin and a metal, often iron, copper, silver, zinc, or magnesium
stationary bicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationary bicycles
Senses: glosses: A device with saddle, pedals, and some form of handlebars arranged as on a bicycle, but used as exercise equipment rather than transportation.
multipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multipotent
form: most multipotent
Etymology: From multi- + potent.
Senses: synonyms: pluripotent
glosses: Having the power to do many different things.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: pluripotent
;
totipotent
oligopotent
unipotent
glosses: Describing a cell that can give rise to a limited number of several different types of cell.
Related terms: multipotency
multipotential
multistep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + step.
Senses: examples: text: a multistep synthesis
text: Somatic exocytosis of serotonin is a multistep and multiregulated process.
ref: 2015, Francisco F. De-Miguel et al., “Serotonin release from the neuronal cell body and its long-lasting effects on the nervous system”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 370, →DOI:
text: Once her clients have healed, Ms. Schook said that they rarely return to their previous multistep routines.
ref: 2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Involving multiple steps
myelogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmaɪəˈlɒd͡ʒɪnəs/
Etymology: From myelo- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Originating in, or produced by, bone marrow
Synonyms: myeloid
nucleosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nucleosomal
form: most nucleosomal
Etymology: From nucleosome + -al.
Senses: synonyms: nucleosomic
glosses: Of or pertaining to a nucleosome.
Derived terms: antinucleosomal
dinucleosomal
extranucleosomal
hypernucleosomal
internucleosomal
intranucleosomal
nonnucleosomal
oligonucleosomal
polynucleosomal
prenucleosomal
subnucleosomal
supernucleosomal
supranucleosomal
tetranucleosomal
trinucleosomal
Ainsdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Old English Ægenwulf (given name, see also Ægen) and dæl (“valley”). May have been influenced by Old Norse Einulfr (given name) and dalr (“valley”). Listed in the Domesday Book as Einulvesdel.
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3112).