cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Qaujimajatuqangit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᑐᖃᖏᑦ (qaoyimayatoqangit).
Senses: glosses: Inuit traditional knowledge
Synonyms: Qaujimanituqangit
Qaujimanituqangit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᖃᐅᔨᒪᓂᑐᖃᖏᑦ (qaoyimanitoqangit).
Senses: glosses: Inuit traditional knowledge
Synonyms: Qaujimajatuqangit
electric potential difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric potential differences
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: voltage
electric potentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric potential
electric pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electric + pressure.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: voltage
flail tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flail tanks
Etymology: From flail + tank; From the flail chains attached to the rotating drum attached to the tank.
Senses: glosses: a type of armored tracked fighting vehicle with a motorized spinning drum with the longitudinal axis of the drum arranged horizontally, perpendicular to the motion of the tank, with flail chains attached to the front end, which can clear landmines and barbed wire by beating them to bits
bobbin tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobbin tanks
Etymology: From bobbin + tank, from the bobbin-like appearance of the spool of road surface material attached to the tank.
Senses: glosses: A road-laying armoured tracked fighting vehicle that carries a spool of fabric to be used as a road surface over loose ground that tanks have difficulty crossing.
vermentinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yet Sardinian vermentinos can be inconsistent, too.
ref: 2009 August 19, Eric Asimov, “Italian Whites to Silence the Snickers”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of vermentino
minor scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor scale
major scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of major scale
cleithral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cleithrum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: As none of the ovicells were observed to be closed by the operculum, presumably because they were empty and the opercula were resting on the primary orifice rim, the ovicell closure type is subcleithral rather than cleithral [51 ], at least in some species of the genus.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or having, a cleithrum.
topics: architecture
glosses: Having a roof that forms a complete covering.
Derived terms: acleithral
postcleithral
subcleithral
acleithral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + cleithral.
Senses: examples: text: In the genotype, Lepralia auriculata the acleithral ooecium is marginally covered by a thick imperforate layer of secondary calcification, resulting in a reduced proximal area of exposed pseudoporous ectooecium; the secondary calcification never covers this exposed ectooecium, even in heavily calcified zooids.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Lacking a cleithrum
antihistaminergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + histaminergic.
Senses: examples: text: CYP2D6 affects n = 11 (14%) of the ISS-listed drugs: 2 antipsychotics, one antidepressant, three antihistaminergic, 2 analgesics, and one betablocker, one hormone agonist and one antiemetic.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Where Failure Is Not an Option –Personalized Medicine in Astronauts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That counteracts the effects of histamine
autozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autozooids
Etymology: From auto- + zooid.
Senses: examples: text: Pore density (PD) was measured by randomly placing a digital square with a side length of 200 μm over a photo of the frontal wall of an autozooid and counting the number of pores that lay completely within this square.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A zooid that is able to feed.
Derived terms: autozooidal
autozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ancestrula overgrown by increasingly larger autozooids relatively early during astogeny.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of autozooid
autozooidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From autozooid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Ovicell hyperstomial (i.e. prominent), often becoming subimmersed by secondary calcification during ontogeny, completely calcified ectooecium with conspicuous frontal pseudopores, not closed by autozooidal operculum.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of an autozooid.
bitectiporid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitectiporids
Senses: examples: text: Seven of these species are transferred to the bitectiporid genus Schizomavella: S.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any bryozoan of the family Bitectiporidae.
cerebrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: Damage to the insular cortex can result in several types of neurogenic signs and symptoms, including various systemic somatosensory symptoms, a swallowing disorder, and cerebrogenic arrhythmia [2, 3 ].
ref: 2015 October 22, “Cardioembolism and Involvement of the Insular Cortex in Patients with Ischemic Stroke”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Caused by activity in the cerebral cortex
coarticulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + articulatory.
Senses: examples: text: The approximation actually ignores events such as coarticulatory effects across word boundaries.
ref: 2015 October 22, “MCA-NMF: Multimodal Concept Acquisition with Non-Negative Matrix Factorization”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to coarticulation
coquinoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coquina + -oid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The Middle Member is 880 m thick, and is characterized by complex interbedding of medium to fined-grained sandstone, organic mudstone, coal, shales and coquinoidal limestones with abundant mollusks remains.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, composed of, or resembling coquina
crestal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crest + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That is situated on, or forms part of, a crest.
Derived terms: supracrestal
crestal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crestals
Etymology: From crest + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In the arrangement of the crestals Shinisaurus closely resembles Xenosaurus (in which genus, however, the crestals are blunt and resemble ornamental tack heads) […]
ref: 1955, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 15:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A scale located on the crest.
cytidylyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from cytidylate
Derived terms: cytidylyltransferase
cytidylyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytidylyltransferases
Etymology: From cytidylyl + transferase.
Senses: examples: text: The CDP-choline pathway can occur in all nucleated cells and is involved in producing PC from choline, ATP, CTP and diacylglycerol, catalyzed by the enzymes choline kinase, choline-phosphate cytidylyltransferase and diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase [44 ].
ref: 2015 October 22, “Influence of Development and Dietary Phospholipid Content and Composition on Intestinal Transcriptome of Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that transfers a cytidylyl group
dendrodate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrodates
Etymology: From dendro- + date.
Senses: examples: text: An early start for Bz A2a already in the late 3 rd millennium or at least around 2000 BC is indicated by Quenstedt, grave 34, a grave from Feuersbrunn and possibly also hoard II of Melz (cf. also the princely grave of Leubingen with a dendrodate of 1942±10 BC [23 ]).
ref: 2015 October 22, “Rewriting the Central European Early Bronze Age Chronology: Evidence from Large-Scale Radiocarbon Dating”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A date estimated by dendrochronology.
dendrodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dendrodates
form: dendrodating
form: dendrodated
form: dendrodated
Etymology: From dendro- + date.
Senses: glosses: To date by means of dendrochronology.
depensatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For example, a depensatory mortality mechanism was suggested to explain the inverse relationship between lobster mortality and lobster catches occurring homogenously across the stock assessment areas in Tasmania [15 ].
ref: 2015 October 22, “Predation Risk within Fishing Gear and Implications for South Australian Rock Lobster Fisheries”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to depensation
desiliconization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + siliconization.
Senses: examples: text: The samples were then washed serially in 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95 and 100% ethanol solutions, and the subsequent protocols were conducted according to the procedure for improved desiliconization and scraping described by Chen et al.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Transgenic Rice Expressing Ictb and FBP/Sbpase Derived from Cyanobacteria Exhibits Enhanced Photosynthesis and Mesophyll Conductance to CO 2”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The removal of silicon or silicates
dopaminoceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dopamine + -ceptive.
Senses: examples: text: DARPP-32 is a signaling hub that plays a critical role in the integration of numerous neurotransmitter and neuromodulator signals arriving at dopaminoceptive neurons (for review, see [13 ]).
ref: 2015 October 22, “Motor Skill Learning Is Associated with Phase-Dependent Modifications in the Striatal cAMP/PKA/DARPP-32 Signaling Pathway in Rodents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a receptor sensitive to dopamine
echioidinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In all the experiments described herein echioidinin and 7-O-methywogonin was added 24 h after the culture.
ref: 2015 October 22, “In Vitro Production of Echioidinin, 7- O -Methywogonin from Callus Cultures of Andrographis lineata and Their Cytotoxicity on Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chromene derivative 5-hydroxy-2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-7-methoxychromen-4-one
ectooecial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Exposed ectooecium a wide, flat, semicircular area with rounded or elongate pseudopores that are larger at the periphery; secondary calcification of distal zooid forming a crown of prominent conical nodules completely encircling the exposed ectooecial area, showing a fine proximomedian suture; secondary calcification may occasionally even cover the entire pseudoporous area with a thin layer but without occluding the pseudopores.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to an ectooecium
ectooecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectooecia
Senses: examples: text: Ovicell hyperstomial (i.e. prominent), often becoming subimmersed by secondary calcification during ontogeny, completely calcified ectooecium with conspicuous frontal pseudopores, not closed by autozooidal operculum.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The outer, often calcified, layer of the wall of an ovicell of a bryozoan.
endosedentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + sedentary.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, MYB genes have been identified in other plant species displaying resistance to endosedentary nematodes [67 ], which contributes to the assumption that some representatives of this TF family in A.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Root Transcriptome Analysis of Wild Peanut Reveals Candidate Genes for Nematode Resistance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That settles down within a host
raw_tags: of a parasite
equiangularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From equiangular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For each scan, 1501 to 2001 projections equiangularly spaced over 180° were acquired, with an exposure time of 125–1250 ms per single projection.
ref: 2015 October 22, “A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: At equal angles (apart)
fossoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fossorial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Comparisons of forelimb morphologies associated with fossoriality within Cryptotis [9 ] to those among shrews in the African subfamily Myosoricinae showed strongly convergent adaptions^([sic]) of the forelimb in the two groups [33 ].
ref: 2015 October 22, “Molecular Phylogeny Supports Repeated Adaptation to Burrowing within Small-Eared Shrews Genus of Cryptotis (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being fossorial
fossorialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fossorial + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: In the current study, we demonstrate that fossorialization can evolve repeatedly even within a single genus and at a relatively shallow time scale.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Molecular Phylogeny Supports Repeated Adaptation to Burrowing within Small-Eared Shrews Genus of Cryptotis (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: modification to become fossorial
glycotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycotransferases
Etymology: From glyco- + transferase.
Senses: examples: text: CG33303 is predicted to have the dolichyl-diphosphooligosachharide-protein glycotransferase activity based on its similarity with human Ribophorin I. As candidates from this class show differential effect on different tendon cell clusters i.e. dorsal-anterior and posterior tendon cell cluster it would be interesting to investigate their role in specifying these tendon cell clusters.
ref: 2015 October 22, “A Tendon Cell Specific RNAi Screen Reveals Novel Candidates Essential for Muscle Tendon Interaction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a sugar moiety
gymnocystal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gymnocyst + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Proximal half of the primary orifice surrounded by an elevated rim of smooth gymnocystal calcification, somewhat quadrangular in outline.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a gymnocyst
gymnocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnocysts
Etymology: From gymno- + cyst.
Senses: glosses: A series of shieldlike walls in a colony of zooids
Derived terms: gymnocystal
hemiarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiarches
Etymology: From hemi- + arch.
Senses: examples: text: Four dental implants were inserted on each hemiarch.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Either half of an arch
hypochondroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Achondroplastic or hypochondroplastic conditions merely show a flattened form of the proximal articular heads of the long bones, rather than gross deformations of the proximal epiphyses.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Paleopathological Study of Dwarfism-Related Skeletal Dysplasia in a Late Joseon Dynasty (South Korean) Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to hypochondroplasia
intrasulcular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + sulcular.
Senses: examples: text: During passive breakdown period all plaque control activities were stopped and afterwards, peri-implantitis was additionally induced by intrasulcular placement of cotton ligatures during an active breakdown period.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a sulcus
sulcular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a sulcus
intrasynaptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + synaptic.
Senses: examples: text: First, we demonstrate the presence of small postsynaptic vesicles and characterize their size and intrasynaptic localization.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Postsynaptic VAMP/Synaptobrevin Facilitates Differential Vesicle Trafficking of GluA1 and GluA2 AMPA Receptor Subunits”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a synapse
lanceoporid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanceoporids
Senses: examples: text: The eighth species, Schizoporella fayalensis, is transferred to the lanceoporid genus Stephanotheca.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any bryozoan of the family Lanceoporidae
lenticulostriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lenticulo- + striate.
Senses: examples: text: The adjacent region included the operculum, lenticulostriate nucleus, extreme capsule, and claustrum, whereas the remote region involved other areas within the MCA territory except for those assigned to the adjacent region.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Cardioembolism and Involvement of the Insular Cortex in Patients with Ischemic Stroke”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the lentiform nucleus and the striatum
examples: text: lenticulostriate infarction
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the lenticulostriate arteries (a group of small arteries arising at the commencement of the middle cerebral artery) or the territory supplied by those arteries.
Synonyms: lenticulostriatal
lenticulostriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenticulostriates
Etymology: From lenticulo- + striate.
Senses: glosses: A lenticulostriate artery
lenticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a lens or lentil
Related terms: lenticulostriate
mechanoloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mechano- + loading.
Senses: examples: text: Since we selected treadmill to apply mechanoloading to the mice, it will be an important future study to evaluate a possible impact of alterations in general metabolism.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Mechanical Loading Synergistically Increases Trabecular Bone Volume and Improves Mechanical Properties in the Mouse when BMP Signaling Is Specifically Ablated in Osteoblasts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: mechanical loading
meniscofemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From menisco- + femoral.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the lateral meniscus is attached to the joint capsule by the meniscofemoral ligaments, popliteal tendon, popliteo-meniscal fascicle, and arcuate complex.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Comparison of Medial and Lateral Meniscus Root Tears”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting a meniscus and a femur (of femoral condyle).
mesocranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + cranic.
Senses: examples: text: The cranial index of this individual indicates a mesocranic type (CI = 78.8), whereas normal Eunpyeong females are brachycranic (CI = 81.8, N = 62, 136.6/167×100).
ref: 2015 October 22, “Paleopathological Study of Dwarfism-Related Skeletal Dysplasia in a Late Joseon Dynasty (South Korean) Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having an intermediate-sized cranium
cranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cranial.
synonyms: word: cranial
Derived terms: acrocranic
brachycranic
mesocranic
microporelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the lepralielliform ovicell, in which the ectooecium is entirely calcified though perforated by numerous pseudopores, precludes these species from being affiliated with taxa having a microporelliform ovicell, in which the ectooecium is uncalcified.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having the form of a member of the Microporellidae.
microstromatolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microstromatolites
Etymology: From micro- + stromatolite.
Senses: examples: text: Note how the microstromatolite and surrounding basalt are overgrown by the biofilm and how hyphae protrude.
ref: 2015 October 22, “A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic stromatolite; a rock composed of such organisms
microstromatolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The microstromatolites and the surrounding basalt were overlaid by fungal cells and hyphae.
ref: 2015 October 22, “A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microstromatolite
neuromaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + maturation.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, since girls are supposedly more vulnerable due to differences in neuromaturation, hormonal fluctuations, and alcohol metabolism, gender was considered as a possible moderator.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Adolescent Heavy Drinking Does Not Affect Maturation of Basic Executive Functioning: Longitudinal Findings from the TRAILS Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The maturation of neurons
Related terms: neuromaturational
periconception
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + conception.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, most studies did not examine periconception period as an exposure window.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Periconceptional and Gestational Exposure to Antibiotics and Childhood Asthma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Around the time of conception
phospholipolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Amongst up-regulated genes there were both genes coding for enzymes with phospholipolytic activity such as several phospholipases (D3/4, A2, lysophospholipase 2) as well as others with biosynthetic functions including a number of specific acytransferase enzymes.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Influence of Development and Dietary Phospholipid Content and Composition on Intestinal Transcriptome of Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That breaks down (hydrolyzes) phospholipids
precranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From pre- + cranial.
Senses: examples: text: Posterior to this, the precranial cavity first appears as a dorsal and a ventral opening.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Before (in front of) the cranium
pseudopores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Autozooids with cryptocystidean frontal shield, perforated by a highly variable number of small pseudopores, from very numerous to extremely reduced or almost absent, plus a row of peripheral areolar pores.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pseudopore
pseudoporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + porous.
Senses: examples: text: Exposed ectooecium a wide, flat, semicircular area with rounded or elongate pseudopores that are larger at the periphery; secondary calcification of distal zooid forming a crown of prominent conical nodules completely encircling the exposed ectooecial area, showing a fine proximomedian suture; secondary calcification may occasionally even cover the entire pseudoporous area with a thin layer but without occluding the pseudopores.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to pseudopores
rhogocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhogocytes
Senses: examples: text: The hemolymph spaces of the open circulatory system showed a weaker signal, suggesting a lower hemocyanin concentration in the hemolymph compared to the rhogocyte subcellular compartments.
ref: 2015 October 22, “On the Ultrastructure and Function of Rhogocytes from the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A pore cell, in molluscs, that produces hemocyanin.
rhogocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Based on electron microscopy, we recently proposed a possible pathway of hemoglobin exocytosis through the slit apparatus, and provided molecular evidence of a common phylogenetic origin of molluscan rhogocytes, insect nephrocytes and vertebrate podocytes.
ref: 2015 October 22, “On the Ultrastructure and Function of Rhogocytes from the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of rhogocyte
semiglobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + globular.
Senses: examples: text: The crown is semiglobular and rounded, with a transverse crest and a long uvula that does not extend beyond the root.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: roughly having the shape of half a sphere
Synonyms: word: hemispherical
sense: more rarely
word: hemispheric
ransom strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ransom strips
Senses: glosses: A small part of land that controls access to another property.
Related terms: easement
landlocked
spite fence
autoclavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoclaving
solventogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solvent + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, similar as the yeast metabolism, when ABE fermentation entered the solventogenesis phase, the cell growth also stopped and only very little amount of glucose is consumed on cells maintenance as well.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Enhancing Butanol Production under the Stress Environments of Co-Culturing Clostridium acetobutylicum/Saccharomyces cerevisiae Integrated with Exogenous Butyrate Addition”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The biochemical synthesis of solvents (typically alcohols)
ransom strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ransom strip
solventogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solvent + -o- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: We also added aromatic and aspartic family amino acids, as well as their combinations, into the anaerobic bottles based ABE fermentation broth when it entered into solventogenic phase at 24 h, attempting to improve ABE fermentation performance.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Enhancing Butanol Production under the Stress Environments of Co-Culturing Clostridium acetobutylicum/Saccharomyces cerevisiae Integrated with Exogenous Butyrate Addition”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That biochemically synthesizes solvents (typically alcohols)
lanceoporids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanceoporid
gymnocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnocyst
hemiarches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiarch
glycotransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycotransferase
dendrodates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrodate
bitectiporids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitectiporid
soxhlation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soxhlations
Etymology: From Soxhlet + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In order to obtain the maximal number of compounds from Andrographis lineata calli, we used acetone for soxhlation under hot condition.
ref: 2015 October 22, “In Vitro Production of Echioidinin, 7- O -Methywogonin from Callus Cultures of Andrographis lineata and Their Cytotoxicity on Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: extraction by means of a Soxhlet extractor
periconceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + conceptual.
Senses: examples: text: It seems that the exposure of the rabbit mothers to the bioactive supplement TT during 45 days of the periconceptual period was sufficient to induce changes in the oocytes-secreted gene BMP15.
ref: 2016 March 1, “Tribulus terrestris Alters the Expression of Growth Differentiation Factor 9 and Bone Morphogenetic Protein 15 in Rabbit Ovaries of Mothers and F 1 Female Offspring”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Around the time of conception.
Derived terms: periconceptually
periconceptually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From periconceptual + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Around the time of conception.
spondyloepiphyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spondylo- + epiphyseal.
Senses: examples: text: Predominantly these include epiphyseal involvement (e.g., chondrodysplasia punctate, acromesomelic dwarfism, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia), metaphyseal involvement (e.g., achondroplasia, lysosomal storage diseases), and spinal involvement (e.g., spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia) [1 ].
ref: 2015 October 22, “Paleopathological Study of Dwarfism-Related Skeletal Dysplasia in a Late Joseon Dynasty (South Korean) Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the spine and the epiphysis
Derived terms: spondyloepimetaphyseal
noncolonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + colonized.
Senses: examples: text: Notably, colonized patients have a much higher risk of developing MRSA infections than noncolonized patients.
ref: 2016 March 1, “Monoclonal Antibody Targeting Staphylococcus aureus Surface Protein A (SasA) Protect Against Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis and Peritonitis in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not colonized.
subcleithral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cleithral.
Senses: examples: text: As none of the ovicells were observed to be closed by the operculum, presumably because they were empty and the opercula were resting on the primary orifice rim, the ovicell closure type is subcleithral rather than cleithral [51 ], at least in some species of the genus.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beneath a cleithrum
suboral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From sub- + oral.
Senses: examples: text: Avicularia adventitious, monomorphic or polymorphic, suboral or lateral to orifice.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: underneath the mouth
suborally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From suboral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They differ from the other species in the subgenus by the small, oval, suborally placed avicularia.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: underneath the mouth
superdiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superdiverse
form: most superdiverse
Etymology: From super- + diverse.
Senses: glosses: Very diverse; exhibiting superdiversity.
superdiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdiversities
Etymology: From super- + diversity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A high level of diversity within and between the ethnic groups in a population.
supercompensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercompensations
Etymology: From super- + compensation.
Senses: examples: text: Ten of the 22 overload subjects demonstrated a substantial decrease in performance after the overload period (372 ± 36 vs 363 ± 36 W at Pre and Mid, respectively, almost certain moderate decrease, Fig 2A) followed by a very likely small performance supercompensation during the taper (378 ± 36 W at Post, Fig 2A, S1 Fig).
ref: 2015 October 22, “The Development of Functional Overreaching Is Associated with a Faster Heart Rate Recovery in Endurance Athletes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A period, after exercise, during which a measured function is greater than normal.
transgingival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + gingival.
Senses: examples: text: In clinical practice, it shall be develop and implement suitably effective coating strategies on definitive prosthetic transgingival abutments or on zirconia crowns.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Through or across the gums
tyrindoleninone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, the female glands were found to contain higher amounts of reduced methanethiol derivatised indoles, such as tyrindoleninone and tyriverdin, whereas males contained more oxidised end-products 6-bromoisatin and 6,6’dibromoindirubin [1 ].
ref: 2015 October 22, “Characterization of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Tyrian Purple Producing Gland in a Marine Gastropod”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A brominated indole, obtained from a gastropod of species Dicathais, that induces apoptosis in some cancer cells.
tyrindoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Enzymes such as sulphur transferase and sulphur reductase may be involved in contributing the methane thiol group on the indole ring of tyrindoxyl sulfate.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Characterization of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Tyrian Purple Producing Gland in a Marine Gastropod”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from Tyrian purple
unflanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flanked.
Senses: glosses: Not flanked.
unflaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flaked.
Senses: glosses: Not flaked.
ventroposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From ventro- + posterior.
Senses: examples: text: The expression of Sema3A in the posterior and ventroposterior regions of the tectum has been postulated to channel RGC axons into the tectum [40 ], and ectopic application of FGF2 or heparin sulfates culminates in mistargeting of RGC axons [41 ,42 ].
ref: 2015 October 22, “NF-Protocadherin Regulates Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Behaviour in the Developing Visual System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ventral and posterior
unsnowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsnowy
form: most unsnowy
Etymology: From un- + snowy.
Senses: examples: text: Lorenzo was holding the little mite, who'd been born the day before on a relatively balmy and unsnowy Christmas Day, at his shoulder, gently patting her to wind her after her feed.
ref: 2014, Joanne Walsh, The Italian's Christmas Bride:
glosses: Not snowy.
deassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deass
deasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deass
deassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deass
minilanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minilanguages
form: mini-language
Etymology: From mini- + language.
Senses: examples: text: The success of Logo in general and turtle graphics in particular stimulated the development of the mini-language approach to teaching the principles of programming.
ref: 1997 March, Peter Brusilovsky et al., “Mini-languages: A Way to Learn Programming Principles”, in Education and Information Technologies, →DOI:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A relatively small and simple domain-specific language.
minilanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minilanguage
nê
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Afrikaans nè, probably short for newaar (“isn't that true?”), colloquial variant of nie waar.
Senses: examples: text: Then you are not come as a recruit to our ranks, but have already ducked your head to a bullet, nê?
ref: 1900, Harold Blore, An Imperial Light Horseman:
text: No, we like this place, exotic for us whites, nê.
ref: 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 21:
glosses: As interrogative particle: "isn't that the case?"; also used with emphatic effect.
horripilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of horripilate
horripilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪd/
ipa: /hɑˌɹipiˈleɪtid/
ipa: /-ɾid/
Forms: form: more horripilated
form: most horripilated
Etymology: From horripilate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Fortitude of heart is the confidence and boldness of faith that is reverent but not horripilated, hopeful but not presumptuous, heroic but not ambitious.
ref: 2011, Domenic Marbaniang, “Rediscovery of Prayer”, in Beyond the Shadows and Other Essays, [USA]: Domenic Marbaniang, →ISBN, page 139:
text: Looking back on it, I do have fond memories of that journey—Iris in a swimsuit and horripilated flesh perched over a lake barely clear of ice, the smell of the pine woods and the intoxicating smoke of our cookfires, […]
ref: 2004, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, chapter 9, in The Inner Circle, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
text: It took Cindy ten minutes to coax the horripilated feline from beneath a car, his trust in her utterly shattered. But his attention span being only marginally longer than the life span of certain theoretical subatomic particles, he soon could not remember what he was doing underneath a Volvo in the first place, and was eager to be back in the warmth of his human's arms.
ref: 2005, Andrew Thomas Breslin, Mother’s Milk, Hoboken, N.J.: ENC Press, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Bristling with fear or horror; with fur or hair standing on end.
Related terms: word: horripilant
word: horripilate
word: horripilating
word: horriplilatingly
word: horripilation
horripilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪd/
ipa: /hɑˌɹipiˈleɪtid/
ipa: /-ɾid/
Etymology: From horripilate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of horripilate.
horripilating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /hɑˌɹipiˈleɪtiŋ/
ipa: /-ɾiŋ/
Forms: form: more horripilating
form: most horripilating
Etymology: From horripilate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Causing horripilation.
examples: text: I was sadly shocked, however, when he said he could prove that God hates the truth; the effect was horripilating.
ref: 1845, Edmund Hepple, Truth and Falsehood Defined and Exemplified: A Scene at Quintern Abbey, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by T. & J. Hodgson, Union Street, →OCLC, page 105:
text: Fear, the product of guilt, is a true night-plant. Like some of those gigantic fungi the botanists tell of, it springs up in the dark, and in an hour of restless tossing, sudorific, horripilating wretchedness, canopies our bed with a phantom toad-stool of gigantic size. The load that the conscience can jauntily stagger under in the broad light of day, […] will, in the gloom and silence of the night, wear its bearer to his knees.
ref: [1873], W[illiam] S[tarbuck] Mayo, chapter XVII, in Never Again (The Library of Favourite Authors, British and Foreign; I), London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 192:
text: Always something of a timpani concerto among symphonies—besides the famous solos in the Scherzo there is the horripilating tattoo that all but drowns out the first movement recapitulation, […]
ref: 1995, Richard Taruskin, “Resisting the Ninth”, in Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235:
text: In Rachilde's fiction, however, scientists or doctors are associated with sexual knowledge that is both unwelcome and yet empowering, the sort of knowledge that makes a young girl's hair stand on end[…]. This horripilating experience is unwelcome, because it comes in the form of unwanted sexual advances at a time when the heroine is still innocent, but ultimately empowering, because it frees the heroine from any further vulnerability to seduction and gives her power over men.
ref: 2001, Melanie C. Hawthorne, “1900, December 10: Women and Education: In which Rachilde’s Mother is Admitted to the Asylum of Charenton and Some Deficiencies in Rachilde’s Education become Apparent”, in Rachilde and French Women’s Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism, Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 190:
text: But what could you do about bombs dropped on you from the air? Especially in the dead of night. The idea of being killed in your sleep by an enemy you'd never even seen was horripilating.
ref: 2015, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Keep the Home Fires Burning, London: Sphere Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Horrendous, horrifying, terrifying.
Synonyms: frightening
Related terms: word: horripilant
word: horripilate
word: horripilated
word: horripilatingly
word: horripilation
horripilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /hɑˌɹipiˈleɪtiŋ/
ipa: /-ɾiŋ/
Etymology: From horripilate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of horripilate.
horripilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horripilation
hyperaccumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperaccumulates
form: hyperaccumulating
form: hyperaccumulated
form: hyperaccumulated
Etymology: From hyper- + accumulate.
Senses: examples: an angiosperm that hyperaccumulates heavy metals
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To accumulate in large amounts.
Related terms: hyperaccumulation
hyperaccumulator
hyperaccumulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperaccumulate
hyperaccumulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperaccumulate
plagioclimaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plagioclimax
entomofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomofaunas
form: entomofaunae
Etymology: From entomo- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: Insect fauna.
Related terms: entomofaunal
entomofaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomofauna
disclimactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + climactic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to disclimax.
plagioclimactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plagio- + climactic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to plagioclimax.
leupaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular protein that is preferentially expressed in hematopoietic cells and is most homologous to the focal adhesion protein paxillin.
soxhlations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soxhlation
mycoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myco- + culture.
Senses: glosses: The cultivation of mushrooms.
Hypernyms: fungiculture
Lar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lares
Senses: glosses: singular of Lares.
macassar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkæs.ə/
ipa: /məˈkæs.ɚ/
Etymology: Alteration of Makassar (“a port city in Indonesia”)
Senses: examples: text: THE EMPIRE ROOM Mark Grossich, who created the Campbell Apartment lounge in Grand Central Terminal, is using plenty of stainless steel and macassar ebony to turn a former post office branch in the Empire State Building into a sophisticated Art Deco setting for that perfect Manhattan: 350 Fifth Avenue (33rd Street).
ref: 2009 September 2, “Opening Later”, in New York Times:
glosses: A form of ebony from the tree Diospyros celebica
Derived terms: word: antimacassar
word: macassared
english: from Cananga odorata
translation: from Cananga odorata
word: macassar oil
supertablet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertablets
form: super tablet
Etymology: From super- + tablet.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A high-performance tablet computer
supertablets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stefano Milioni, the restaurant’s wine consultant, said the computerized system, called Smartcellar, was designed by a Jericho, N.Y., company, Incentient, to instantly remove inventory when labels sell out — banishing them from these Samsung supertablets and avoiding that bad-news moment when a server returns to tell a customer that the last bottle has been sold.
ref: 2009 September 2, Glenn Collins, “A New Best Friend for the Sommelier”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of supertablet
obentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Japanese mothers take pride in their obentos and hope they outshine those of other mothers, said the Japanese cookbook author Hiroko Shimbo.
ref: 2009 September 9, Samantha Storey, “Bento Boxes Win Lunch Fans”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of obento
mezedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many of the mezedes, or starters, could be a meal in themselves, and their preparation and presentation are where this restaurant shines.
ref: 2009 September 13, Patricia Brooks, “Traditional Greek Fare in a Sophisticated Setting”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of meze