cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
midstratum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midstrata
Etymology: From mid- + stratum.
Senses: examples: text: Cytoplasmic FGFR-3 expression was observed in upper and midstratum layer of lining epithelium, stromal fibroblast cells, tumor cells and seldom in endothelium of tumor stroma as shown in “Fig 3A, 3B and 3C ”. 75% cases (81/108) of OSCC, 40.28% cases (29/72) of PMOLs and 36.54% (19/52) controls stained positive for FGFR-3.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF-2) and Its Receptors FGFR-2 and FGFR-3 May Be Putative Biomarkers of Malignant Transformation of Potentially Malignant Oral Lesions into Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The middle of a stratum
multineural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + neural.
Senses: examples: text: The multineural recordings did not allow unambiguous assignment of action potentials to individual neurons.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Insects Can Count: Sensory Basis of Host Discrimination in Parasitoid Wasps Revealed”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to multiple neurons
mechitzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechitzahs
form: mechitzot
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mechitza.
mechitzot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechitza
glosses: plural of mechitzah
mechitzahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechitzah
multitransgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + transgenic.
Senses: examples: text: In the past years numerous efforts were undertaken to generate multitransgenic animals to prevent rejection of the transplant, to evaluate microbiological safety of different pig breeds (for review see [1 –3 ]) and to establish a “precautionary principle” strategy to combat unknown risks [4 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “Extended Microbiological Characterization of Göttingen Minipigs in the Context of Xenotransplantation: Detection and Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis E Virus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: transgenic in multiple ways
musculomandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From musculo- + mandibular.
Senses: examples: text: Rostrally, the submandibular artery bifurcates into the musculomandibular and genioglossus arteries [52 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the muscles that control the mandible
rezonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rezone + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being rezoned.
myofunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + function.
Senses: examples: text: The myofunction of the masticatory muscles were^([sic]) assessed using sEMG (21 subjects) and compared to the control group of subjects without implants (21 subjects).
ref: 2015 October 15, “Dental Implants – Perceiving Patients’ Satisfaction in Relation to Clinical and Electromyography Study on Implant Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The function of a particular muscle
nephritogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nephritogenic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the presence and nephritogenicity of nucleosome-containing immune complexes were verified in kidney biopsies of murine and human LN.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Co-Positivity for Anti-dsDNA, -Nucleosome and -Histone Antibodies in Lupus Nephritis Is Indicative of High Serum Levels and Severe Nephropathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being nephritogenic
nonexpresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexpressers
Etymology: From non- + expresser.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, the receptors for SA were identified in Arabidopsis thaliana and named as nonexpresser of PR genes (NPR) 3 and 4 [5 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “Plant Hormone Salicylic Acid Produced by a Malaria Parasite Controls Host Immunity and Cerebral Malaria Outcome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something that does not express genes
nonrectifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rectifying.
Senses: examples: text: Gap junctions were modeled as a nonrectifying conductance between two cells [59 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “Information Flow through a Model of the C. elegans Klinotaxis Circuit”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That does not rectify
opephoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Opephora + -oid
Senses: examples: text: Valves in natural populations usually linear to lanceolate elongate with obtusely rounded apices, in culture rather linear elongate, sometimes opephoroid, with broadly rounded head pole and acutely rounded footpole, 6.5–13.3 (in culture), up to 18.9 (in natural population) μm long, 3–4.3 μm in width.
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of diatoms of the genus Opephora.
ophthalmofundoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + fundoscopy.
Senses: examples: text: In order to detect ophthalmologic diseases, each subject underwent a series of ophthalmologic tests before 48-hour IOP curve measurement in both eyes, including best-corrected visual acuity, slit-lamp examination, Goldmann applanation tonometry, central corneal thickness (CCT), gonioscopy, ophthalmofundoscopy and visual field test.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Short-Term Reproducibility of Twenty-Four-Hour Intraocular Pressure Curves in Untreated Patients with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: ophthalmic fundoscopy
ophthalmotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + temporal.
Senses: examples: text: The ophthalmotemporal artery supplies primarily the eyeball.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the eye and the temple
otosphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oto- + sphenoidal.
Senses: examples: text: The cerebral carotid then passes closely apposed to the basisphenoid, ventral to the otosphenoidal crest, where it enters the cerebral carotid canal.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the ear and the sphenoid bone
oversmoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + smoothed.
Senses: examples: text: It can be observed that both methods produce reasonable results, although the one obtained from the enhanced DTI dataset seems oversmoothed and outliers (indicated with the yellow arrow) can occur.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Improving Fiber Alignment in HARDI by Combining Contextual PDE Flow with Constrained Spherical Deconvolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessively smoothed
paradiapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + diapophyseal.
Senses: examples: text: This buttress bifurcates ventrally forming a prominent PCDL which extends to the centrum, and a faint but distinct ridge that extends to the anterodorsal margin of the parapophysis, in the equivalent position of the paradiapophyseal lamina (PPDL; [30 ]; Fig 19C ).
ref: 2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That covers the diapophysis
Related terms: paradiapophysis
LNWR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of London and North Western Railway.
parascapular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + scapular.
Senses: examples: text: No parascapular spine has ever been found in Stegosaurus.
ref: 2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Over the scapula.
paraterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + terminal.
Senses: examples: text: Vacuolation was scored on a scale of 0–5 in the following brain areas: 1, dorsal medulla; 2, cerebellum; 3, midbrain; 4, hypothalamus; 5, thalamus; 6, hippocampus; 7, septal nuclei of the paraterminal body; 8 caudal cerebral cortex; and 9, rostral cerebral cortex.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Transmissibility of H-Type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy to Hamster PrP Transgenic Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Over or above a terminus.
pharmaconutrient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmaconutrients
Etymology: From pharmaco- + nutrient.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Both a pharmaceutical and a nutrient
Related terms: pharmaconutrition
nakamal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nakamals
Etymology: Borrowed from Bislama nakamal.
Senses: glosses: A traditional meeting-place in Vanuatu, used for gatherings, ceremonies, and the drinking of kava.
nakamals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nakamal
pharmaconutrients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmaconutrient
groundpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundpeckers
form: ground pecker
form: ground-pecker
Etymology: From ground + pecker.
Senses: glosses: A species of bird in the tit family Paridae, Pseudopodoces humilis.
Synonyms: sense: Pseudopodoces humilis
word: ground tit
sense: Pseudopodoces humilis
word: ground jay
sense: Pseudopodoces humilis
word: Hume's groundpecker
groundpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundpecker
phosphodeficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more phosphodeficient
form: most phosphodeficient
Etymology: From phospho- + deficient.
Senses: examples: text: Analyses of double phosphodeficient mutants (Table 1 ) proved that the availability of even one out of three phosphorylation sites is sufficient for the feedback monomerization to occur.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Inhibition of Receptor Dimerization as a Novel Negative Feedback Mechanism of EGFR Signaling”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having fewer than normal phosphorylation sites
phosphomimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phospho- + mimic.
Senses: examples: text: To examine the possible role of PKD1 in the monomerization of EGFR, we used PKD1 S738/742E, a constitutively active phosphomimic mutant [40 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “Inhibition of Receptor Dimerization as a Novel Negative Feedback Mechanism of EGFR Signaling”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified (by amino acid substitution) to mimic a phosphorylated protein
raw_tags: of a protein
phosphomimic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphomimics
Etymology: From phospho- + mimic.
Senses: glosses: Such a modified protein
phosphomimic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phosphomimics
form: phosphomimicing
form: phosphomimiced
form: phosphomimiced
Etymology: From phospho- + mimic.
Senses: glosses: To mimic a phosphorylated protein
Related terms: phosphomimicry
plagiogrammacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plagiogrammaceans
Etymology: Plagiogrammaceae + -an
Senses: examples: text: This is the first attempt to examine all the known genera of the Plagiogrammaceae from a morphological and molecular standpoint, which will be valuable for future surveys of small, marine araphid diatoms (e.g., Opephora, Pseudostaurosira, Nanofrustulum) because there will finally be a phylogenetically based morphological and molecular circumscription of plagiogrammacean taxa.
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any diatom of the family Plagiogrammaceae
plagiogrammoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In this paper, we describe a new plagiogrammoid genus, Orizaformis, obtained from Bohai Sea (China) and present molecular phylogenies of the family based on three and four genes (nuclear-encoded large and small subunit ribosomal RNAs and chloroplast-encoded rbcL and psbC).
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Related to, or characteristic of diatoms of the family Plagiogrammaceae.
polyoestrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + oestrous.
Senses: examples: text: Badgers are polyoestrous, having multiple oestrous cycles throughout the year [4 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “Reproductive Biology Including Evidence for Superfetation in the European Badger Meles meles (Carnivora: Mustelidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of polyestrous.
posterodorsolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From posterodorsolateral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With the flat basal region held horizontally, the spine extends posterodorsolaterally at an angle of 70 degrees to the horizontal.
ref: 2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a posterodorsolateral direction
posterodorsolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postero- + dorsolateral.
Senses: glosses: posterior and dorsolateral
Derived terms: posterodorsolaterally
posteroventrolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From posteroventrolateral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The vomers form the median borders of the internal nares, which are about 1 cm in diameter and open posteroventrolaterally […]
ref: 1962, Samuel Paul Welles, A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs:
text: The articular surface of the right postzygapophysis is angled at around 20 degrees to the horizontal, facing posteroventrolaterally.
ref: 2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a posteroventrolateral direction.
posteroventrolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postero- + ventrolateral.
Senses: glosses: posterior and ventrolateral
Derived terms: posteroventrolaterally
prefasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + fasting.
Senses: examples: text: The bold lines indicate time points at which fasting values were statistically different from the prefasting values according to two-way, one-sample t-tests.
ref: 2015 October 15, “How and When Do Insects Rely on Endogenous Protein and Lipid Resources during Lethal Bouts of Starvation? A New Application for 13 C-Breath testing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to fasting
preischemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ischemic.
Senses: examples: text: The similar levels of ATP hydrolysis (ATP + H 2 O → ADP + Pi + H + ) that occurred during ischemia among all groups is consistent with the similar reduction in intracellular pH among the groups, from a preischemic baseline of 7.1 to the final pH range observed at the end of ischemia of 6.2–6.1.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Characterization of the Cardiac Overexpression of HSPB2 Reveals Mitochondrial and Myogenic Roles Supported by a Cardiac HspB2 Interactome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to ischemia
preotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Etymology: From pre- + otic.
Senses: examples: text: The A line (Fig 1A ) included the cortex, cingulum (Cg), lateral ventricle (LV), septal nucleus (SN), bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (bst), and lateral preotic area (LPO) (Fig 1C ).
ref: 2015 October 15, “Reduced Cerebral Oxygen Content in the DG and SVZ In Situ Promotes Neurogenesis in the Adult Rat Brain In Vivo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In front of the middle ear
postotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Etymology: From post- + otic.
Senses: glosses: Behind the middle ear
prestarvation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + starvation.
Senses: examples: text: All insects increased their reliance on lipid oxidation, but while some species (grasshoppers, cockroaches, and beetle larvae) were still relying extensively on lipids at the time of death, other species (crickets and moth larvae) allowed rates of lipid oxidation to return to prestarvation levels.
ref: 2015 October 15, “How and When Do Insects Rely on Endogenous Protein and Lipid Resources during Lethal Bouts of Starvation? A New Application for 13 C-Breath testing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to starvation.
pseudocellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocelli
Etymology: From pseudo- + ocellus.
Senses: glosses: A small pore (possibly a simple eye) on the head of a proturan.
pseudocelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The reason for this was not clearly stated but was likely related to the presence of elaborate apical pore fields resembling ocelli and pseudocelli, the latter characterizing the Biddulphiophycidae [6 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pseudocellus
slown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊn/
ipa: /sloʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: Formed on the analogy of past participles like grown, shown, and thrown. Equivalent to slow + -n.
Senses: examples: text: The latest forecasts are that early this year this had slown to around 2%, but it could slow further as the Irish economy is heavily dependent on exports both to the USA and the rest of the European Union.
ref: 2008 June 13, Fred Weston, "Irish government loses vote in EU referendum" marxist.com
text: 'Time has slown down.' It was like this woman was getting just as slown down as I was, even though she never touched the stuff.
ref: 2010, Amy Hempel, “Offertory”, in The Dog of the Marriage, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 113:
text: China's economic growth has slown down for eight quarters, the longest slowdown since the government began reporting such data in 1992, according Yu Bin, a cabinet researcher.
ref: 2012 July 13, Associated Press, “Chinese economy hits three-year low”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: past participle of slow
pseudoisochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + isochromatic.
Senses: examples: text: The pseudoisochromatic stimuli comprised a mosaic of circles with different sizes (0.2 to 0.6° of diameter) and different luminance (12 to 20 cd/m 2 ) that formed target and field embedded in a dark background (0.02 cd/m 2 ).
ref: 2015 October 15, “Colour Vision Impairment in Young Alcohol Consumers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having many isochromatic characteristics
rimoportula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimoportulae
Senses: examples: text: Many araphid diatoms have parallel striae and a distinct sternum; many araphid diatoms (and even some centric diatoms, particularly in the Biddulphiaceae and Eupodiscaceae) have apical pore fields; other small araphid pennates (such as Staurosira species) and centrics (Corethron and Leptocylindrus) lack rimoportula; and occluded pores are found in most diatoms, albeit in a variety of siliceous structures.
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A lip-shaped structure in some diatoms
Related terms: porelliportula
rimoportulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As for the core araphids clade “B”, there are basically two major groups (Fig 1 ): a clade with rimoportulae including Fragilaria and Synedra, and a clade lacking rimoportulae, including Nanofrustulum, Opephora, Staurosirella and Staurosira (Fig 11A ) [10 ,15 –17 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of rimoportula
rostrodorsolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rostro- + dorsolateral.
Senses: examples: text: Just ventral to the paroccipital process and rostrodorsolateral to the facial nerve (CN VII) foramen, the internal carotid gives off the stapedial artery and becomes the cerebral carotid artery.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: rostral and dorsolateral
rostroventrolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rostroventrolateral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After giving off the mandibular artery, the temporoorbital artery courses dorsally through the caudal aspect of the laterotemporal fossa, then curves rostroventrolaterally along the medial aspect of the frontal-postfrontal-postorbital articulation, where it passes into the dorsotemporal fossa.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a rostroventrolateral direction
rostroventromedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rostro- + ventromedial.
Senses: examples: text: Along the ventral surface of the auditus conchae, the lateral nasal vein ramifies in a plexus that drains the ventral and rostroventromedial aspect of the zona annularis, the rostroventral aspect of the concha, and the space along the caudal aspect of the septomaxilla.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: rostral and ventromedial
sacricostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The rib is separated from the anterior margin of the sacricostal yoke by a slit-like fenestra.
ref: 2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the sacrum and the ribs
sardinella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sardinellas
form: sardinella
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The small pelagic fish like anchovies, sardines and sardinella are all abundant species in EBUEs where they all have pelagic egg distributions.
ref: 2015 October 15, “The Principles of Buoyancy in Marine Fish Eggs and Their Vertical Distributions across the World Oceans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any fish of the genus Sardinella
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sardinella brasiliensis
word: Brazilian sardinella
taxonomic: Sardinella tawilis
word: freshwater sardinella
taxonomic: Sardinella gibbosa
word: goldstripe sardinella
taxonomic: Sardinella zunasi
word: Japanese sardinella
taxonomic: Sardinella jussieu
word: Mauritian sardinella
taxonomic: Sardinella aurita
word: round sardinella
shadscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadscales
Senses: examples: text: At areas of slightly higher elevations, soils were less salty and supported a cold desert chenopod shrub community consisting predominately of shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) and gray molly (Kochia americana).
ref: 2015 October 15, “Evaluation of Scat Deposition Transects versus Radio Telemetry for Developing a Species Distribution Model for a Rare Desert Carnivore, the Kit Fox”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An evergreen shrub, Atriplex confertifolia.
temporoorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From temporo- + orbital.
Senses: examples: text: After passing rostrally into the dorsotemporal fossa, the stapedial artery becomes the temporoorbital artery (temporal artery of Oelrich [52 ]).
ref: 2015 October 15, “Vascular Patterns in Iguanas and Other Squamates: Blood Vessels and Sites of Thermal Exchange”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the temple and the orbit of the eye
tengkawang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tengkawangs
Etymology: From Malay.
Senses: examples: text: Natural and logged-over forests should be maintained or managed as an integral part of the swidden system, and landscape multifunctionality should be sustained as a safety net against the price volatility of traded goods (e.g. rubber, palm oil, timber, tengkawang oil), upon which the economy of monocrop systems is much more dependent.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in a Rapidly Transforming Landscape in Northern Borneo”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The tree Shorea macrophylla, from Borneo, that has oil-bearing seeds
tetrabrominated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + brominated.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, other studies quantified penta- and tetrabrominated OH-BDEs that were not included in this study (e.g. 2’-OH-BDE 68).
ref: 2015 October 15, “Quantification of Hydroxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (OH-BDEs), Triclosan, and Related Compounds in Freshwater and Coastal Systems”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: brominated with four bromine atoms
thalassochorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, the Gulf Stream could potentially transport thalassochorous diaspores to the Azores, but few representatives from North America (e.g. Calystegia soldanella and Calystegia sepium ssp.
ref: 2015 October 15, “On the Limited Potential of Azorean Fleshy Fruits for Oceanic Dispersal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: dispersed by means of thalassochory
hydroximate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroximates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclic compound, similar to a lactone, derived from an oxime
Derived terms: thiohydroximate
thiohydroximate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiohydroximates
Etymology: From thio- + hydroximate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A thio- derivative of a hydroximate
thiohydroximates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The former converts aliphatic aldoximes to thiohydroximates, and the latter metabolizes both Trp-derived and Phe-derived acetaldoximes [30 –34 ].
ref: 2015 October 15, “Overexpression of Three Glucosinolate Biosynthesis Genes in Brassica napus Identifies Enhanced Resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of thiohydroximate
tractographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The tractographies corresponding to the two methods are shown in the middle.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Improving Fiber Alignment in HARDI by Combining Contextual PDE Flow with Constrained Spherical Deconvolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of tractography
transferosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferosomes
Etymology: From transfer + -o- + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The conjugation system consists of relaxasome and transferosome components.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Complete Genome Sequence of Thermus aquaticus Y51MC23”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A form of liposome used as a transdermal drug delivery system
transferosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Because of the diverse structures of the protein components of relaxasomes and transferosomes, the function of each plasmid protein cannot be definitively ascertained.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Complete Genome Sequence of Thermus aquaticus Y51MC23”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of transferosome
tyrosination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrosinations
Etymology: From tyrosine + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: They include posttranslational modifications such as tyrosination, acetylation and glutamylation, as well as MT growth, pausing and shortening.
ref: 2015 October 15, “A Cilia Independent Role of Ift88/Polaris during Cell Migration”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: modification by reaction with tyrosine
valvocopula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvocopulae
Etymology: From valvo- + copula.
Senses: examples: text: Girdle elements of Orizaformis also have single rows of puncta and a hyaline valvocopula, though in this genus there is no noticeable size difference between the valvocopula and other girdle elements.
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A copula (girdle) that runs around the valve of a diatom
valvocopulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Complete girdle was not observed, although valvocopulae have been observed and show the presence of a single row of relatively large pores (Fig 10c ) similar to T.
ref: 2015 October 15, “New Insights into Plagiogrammaceae (Bacillariophyta) Based on Multigene Phylogenies and Morphological Characteristics with the Description of a New Genus and Three New Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of valvocopula
Ogliastra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Sardinia, Italy
Derived terms: Ogliastran
Ogliastrian
unprepped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prepped.
Senses: glosses: Not prepared or made ready.
Greyhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greyhounds
Senses: examples: text: I'm just taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line / Because I'm in a New York state of mind
ref: 1976, Billy Joel, “New York State of Mind”, in Turnstiles:
glosses: A bus run by Greyhound Lines.
Galvani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Galvani, from Galvano + -i (“forming surnames”), from galba (“larva, worm, fatty”), from Gaulish of uncertain meaning. Doublet of Galvano, Galvan, and Galvao.
Senses: examples: text: Luigi Galvani first described galvanism in 1792.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
Related terms: galvanism
galvanic
galvano-
phantomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantomic
form: most phantomic
Etymology: From phantom + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: On the phantomic level there is still a distinction between the presented sense of the object and the appresented (emptily intended) sense.
ref: 2012, Dorion Cairns, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl, page 147:
glosses: Relating to phantoms.
Murri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɐriː/
Forms: form: Murris
form: Murries
Etymology: From Gamilaraay mari (“Aboriginal man”).
Senses: examples: text: [O]n the veranda a fight started round the dart-board and two of the Murris threw punches until the barman thumped them apart.
ref: 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 24:
text: The local council wanted the Murries to live in town. (The council didn't care too much what the Murries themselves thought of this idea.)
ref: 1992, Bill Dodd, Broken Dreams, University of Queensland Press, unnumbered page:
text: 1998, Margaret Henderson, Subdivisions of Suburbia, Andrew McCann (editor), Writing the Everyday, Australian Literary Studies, Volume 18, No. 4, University of Queensland Press, page 78,
She can confidently walk through the mall, and make the politico-spatial connections between what she sees (Murries sitting and begging, crowds of Chinese-Australians, police lurking), what she has experienced in Eagleby (dispossessed whites, Murries unaware of their heritage), and what she has learnt from Roger, Kerry, and the 'Anyday Story'.
text: ‘The Murris don't work to whitefeller schedules. That's not the way it is.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 15:
text: The immediate background to the event was several massacres, the killings of Murries at Teewah beach, and the "clearing" of the Dawson Valley where other Murries had been fighting a sort of guerilla^([sic]) war against the white invasion of the grasslands.
ref: 2006, Martin Cohen, No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit, The Disinformation Company Ltd., page 106:
synonyms: Koori
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: An indigenous Australian, especially one from Queensland or northern New South Wales.
Derived terms: Murri grapevine
Related terms: Goori
Koori
wraithy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wraithy
form: most wraithy
Etymology: From wraith + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was a white, thin, wraithy sort of being, with no stiffening in her spine and no real sense in her head. She couldn't be Varina Howell. Varina was not afraid of swamps.
ref: 1948, Shirley Seifert, The Proud Way, page 306:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wraith.
boathorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boathorses
Etymology: From boat + horse.
Senses: examples: text: The boathorse provided the power for most boats until the 1880s, when steam boats became more common.
ref: 2004, Avril Lansdell, Canal Arts and Crafts, page 35:
text: They have the unfortunate side effect of preventing access to legitimate users such as boathorses and wheelchair users and those with baby buggies.
ref: 2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, British Waterways: seventh report of session 2006-07 (page 287)
glosses: A horse that tows a boat or barge.
boathorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boathorse
Nadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nændɪː/
Senses: examples: Former spelling: Nandi
glosses: A tourist city Fiji.
Traffic Light Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: TLP
glosses: A system that uses traffic-light colours to indicate how widely information or sensitive documents can be shared.
cartopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartoppers
Etymology: From car + topper.
Senses: glosses: A boat designed to be attached to the top of an automobile for transportation.
cartoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartopper
MVRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MVR
BTX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of (mixture of) benzene, toluene, and xylenes.
glosses: Abbreviation of botulinum toxin.
Related terms: BTEX
Rhazes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Rhazes, from Arabic اَلرَّازِي (ar-rāzī), from Persian رازی (râzi), a surname meaning from Ray.
Senses: synonyms: Razi
al-Razi
glosses: A Persian polymath and physician of the eighth and ninth centuries; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī.
Wimbleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Scruffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From scruffy.
Senses: glosses: A given name for a dog.
butt virginity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of never having received anal sex.
abyssochrysoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abyssochrysoids
Senses: examples: text: Two seep faunas are distinguished in Barbados: the late Eocene mudstone-hosted ‘Joes River fauna’ consists mainly of large lucinid bivalves and tall abyssochrysoid gastropods, and the early Miocene carbonate-hosted ‘Bath Cliffs fauna’ containing the vesicomyid Pleurophopsis, the mytilid Bathymodiolus and small gastropods.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any sea snail of the superfamily Abyssochrysoidea.
allelopathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, probably pathogens or allelopathetic substances may have accumulated in the central zones.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Clonal Patch Size and Ramet Position of Leymus chinensis Affected Reproductive Allocation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of allelopathic.
allergenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The study analyzed NMEs and BLAs; other biologic products including blood, vaccines, allergenics, tissues, and cellular and gene therapies were excluded from the analysis.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Fixed-Dose Combination Drug Approvals, Patents and Market Exclusivities Compared to Single Active Ingredient Pharmaceuticals”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of allergenic
amphicrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + crine.
Senses: examples: text: The cell line is an amphicrine model with exocrine and endocrine functions and is characterized by the presence of digestive enzyme-containing dense core vesicles [12].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Gedunin and Azadiradione: Human Pancreatic Alpha-Amylase Inhibiting Limonoids from Neem (Azadirachta indica) as Anti-Diabetic Agents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having both endocrine and exocrine characteristics
aurasperone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurasperones
Senses: examples: text: The bands observed at 254, 280, and 415 nm may be ascertained to the following secondary metabolites and mycotoxins: aurasperone D, yanuthone E, yanuthone D, nigerazine B, and asperenone [27 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Effect of Microgravity on Fungistatic Activity of an α-Aminophosphonate Chitosan Derivative against Aspergillus niger”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a class of naphthopyrone mycotoxins obtained from Aspergillus molds
naphthopyrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthopyrones
Etymology: From naphtho- + pyrone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compounds having a structure consisting of a pyrone ring fused to that of naphthalene
biarsenical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biarsenicals
Etymology: From bi- + arsenical.
Senses: examples: text: We initially constructed a tetracysteine (PG) tagged hMC4R (hMC4R-PG) for co-transfection with a variant tetracysteine (FLN) tagged hMRAPα (hMRAPα-FLN) in order for dual detection of the tetracysteine tags by biarsenical labelling with FlAsH-EDT 2 or ReAsH-EDT 2, respectively.
ref: 2015 October 16, “hMRAPα, but Not hMRAP2, Enhances hMC4R Constitutive Activity in HEK293 Cells and This Is Not Dependent on hMRAPα Induced Changes in hMC4R Complex N-linked Glycosylation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a group of fluorescent compounds, that contain two arsenic atoms, used to visualize proteins
biarsenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + arsenical.
Senses: examples: biarsenical labelling
glosses: Involving two arsenic atoms
biodeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodemes
Etymology: From bio- + deme.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of deme.
synonyms: word: deme
biodemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These histopathological patterns were characteristic of infection with strains belonging to the biodemes type II and III [40 ].
ref: 2015 October 16, “Oral Outbreak of Chagas Disease in Santa Catarina, Brazil: Experimental Evaluation of a Patient’s Strain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of biodeme
cleptohematophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the present study, we used a device to physically separate infected and uninfected nymphs to prevent cleptohematophagy.
ref: 2015 October 16, “Revisiting Trypanosoma rangeli Transmission Involving Susceptible and Non-Susceptible Hosts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: feeding on the contents of intestines
premodernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premodernisms
Etymology: From premodern + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any style of things predating the modern era.
foul one's own nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fouls one's own nest
form: fouling one's own nest
form: fouled one's own nest
form: fouled one's own nest
Etymology: From the proverb it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
Senses: examples: text: Provide them with a mansion, and they will rip out the plumbing, write obscenities on the walls, and generally foul up their own nest.
ref: 1992, Roy Masters, Secrets of a Parallel Universe, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Whatever we do to nature and the environment we will eventually do to ourselves. If we continually foul our own nest, we will pay the price.
ref: 1998, Max Anders, What You Need to Know About Defending Your Faith in 12 Lessons, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Large cities foul their own nest as they grow, putting the health of their citizens in jeopardy.
ref: 2009, Richard Walker, The country in the city: the greening of the San Francisco, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Rather, it appears that we have a tendency to foul our own nest and destroy what we value the most.
ref: 2012, Daniel McCool, River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers, →ISBN, page 296:
glosses: To damage one's environment.
examples: text: He had concluded, 'Arbitrary violence against them now would be to foul your own nest; mar at the outset the future that is your destiny.
ref: 2007, Roger Taylor, Farnor, →ISBN, page 200:
text: In giving vent to these baseless slanders you have now fouled your own nest and sought to discredit the very judgment which you and your two distinguished colleagues have just rendered.”
ref: 2010, Peter Maguire, Law and War, →ISBN, page 135:
text: He fouled his own nest. So by now he realizes it was his own fault and he had it coming.
ref: 2015, Zachary Leader, The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, →ISBN:
synonyms: shoot oneself in the foot
glosses: To hurt one's own interests, especially to damage the reputation of one's self, family or group.
Related terms: don't shit in your own nest
fouls one's own nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foul one's own nest
fouling one's own nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foul one's own nest
fouled one's own nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foul one's own nest
sick bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sick bays
Senses: glosses: A room in an institution, or compartment on a vessel, where basic medical supplies are kept and medical attention can be sought.
Related terms: infirmary
med bay
sick bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sick bay
it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: They say it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest. My own feeling is that a well-behaved bird will neither foul its own nest nor another's, but that, finding it in any wise foul, it will openly say so, and clean it.
ref: 1872, John Ruskin, The Eagle's Nest:
text: It's an ill bird that fouls his own nest, and we are all Scots folk and all Hieland.
ref: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
text: The saying, “It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest” expresses the most universal of ethical norms, and is probably the source of all such norms.
ref: 2005, Richard Ostrofsky, Sharing Realities: Toward an Epistemology of Conversation, →ISBN, page 173:
text: He admitted then to having had, for two years, “documents in [his] possession sufficient to have destroyed [the Fenians operating in Montreal], but [he had] thought it was an ill bird that fouled its own nest.
ref: 2013, Charles Macnab, Understanding the Thomas D'Arcy McGee Assassination, →ISBN:
glosses: A condemnation of anyone who damages their own group, reputation or interests.
Related terms: don't shit in your own nest
foul one's own nest
infiniverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infiniverse
ball pond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball ponds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ball pit.
synonyms: word: ball pit
ball ponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball pond
abyssochrysoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abyssochrysoid
awryness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəs
Etymology: From awry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being awry.
African sleeping sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sleeping sickness caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei, prevalent in tropical Africa.
Synonyms: sense: sleeping sickness of tropical Africa
word: African trypanosomiasis
confidantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confidantly
form: most confidantly
Senses: examples: text: A story was some time back confidantly circulated in Paris amongst persons of the higher classes, that the minister of police had intercepted, and shown to the king, the correspondence of some members of his family, in which, reports were fabricated […]
ref: 1817, Lady Morgan (Sydney), Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, France, Volume 1
glosses: Among confidants.
raw_tags: of a rumor or information circulation
confidantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of confidently.
coast guarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coast guarders
Senses: examples: text: ”We need to get her to the hospital right away. This doesn't look good,” said the wet coast guarder. As Marcus watched the captain stopped his ministrations and the two men gently lifted Stephanie into the basket type stretcher and secured her to it.
ref: 2014, M. J. Crook, Life in a Moment:
glosses: Synonym of coastguardsman.
synonyms: word: coastguardsman
coast guarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coast guarder
broken hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broken hearted
form: most broken hearted
Senses: examples: text: For the broken hearted people / diamonds now surround us / so out of our mind / leave the past behind
ref: 2019 March 6, “Binary Star”, in Benjamin and mpi (lyrics), SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] (music), R∃/MEMBER, performed by Uru, Sacra Music, →vgmdb:
glosses: Of a person, that has a broken heart.
romanticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From romantic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: […] she, all unconscious of her power, endeavored to pass unheeded, and he with all the romanticity of love, bowed observance to her mandates.
ref: 2012, Martha Read, Richard S. Pressman, Margaretta:
glosses: The state or condition when romantic feelings are felt or conveyed.
dry cell batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry cell battery
zinc-carbon battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinc-carbon batteries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dry cell battery.
synonyms: word: dry cell battery
zinc-carbon batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zinc-carbon battery