cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gressorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more gressorial
form: most gressorial
Etymology: From Latin gressōrius + -al, from gressus (“walked”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the feet are gressorial, large and strong, fitted for the more or less terrestrial life which most of the species lead, walking on the ground with ease instead of hopping like most Fringillidae.
ref: 1872, Key to North American Birds:
text: […] the first pair of legs in Ixodids functions rather as antennae than as gressorial limbs. In the hungry tick it is a frequent occurrence for the first pair of legs to be raised up, thrust forwards towards approaching objects […]
ref: 1965, Entomological Revue, American Institute of Biological Sciences:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Adapted for walking, rather than being adapted for say, swimming, as in seals, or digging, as in moles; ambulatorial.
Related terms: ambulatorial
cursorial
fossorial
natatorial
raptorial
saltatorial
scansorial
testificators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testificator
masculy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Masculy arg. and gu. William FITZWILLIAM, Y. Sire Robert POGEYS, N. PORGYES OF POGERS, co. Bucks. Sir John RIVERS, J, K.
Masculy arg. and sa. BEROMY, Cumberland. Sire T. de BEZOM, N. Nicolas de CROFTS, Y. […]
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 977:
text: Masculy, gules and ermin, de la Roketey.
ref: 1808, Francis Blomefield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Freebridge (concluded). North Greenhow. Happing. Holt. Launditch, page 253:
text: There are some number of coats which are said to have had a field masculy. Of course this is quite possible, and the difference between a field masculy and a field fretty is that in the latter the separate pieces of which it is composed interlace each other; but when the field is masculy it is all one fretwork surface, the field being visible through the voided apertures.
ref: 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 148:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Bearing or composed of mascles.
Related terms: lozengy
copaiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copaivas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copaiba.
copaivas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copaiva
Port-Royalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Port-Royalists
Senses: examples: text: Among the Port-Royalists when the abbey was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century wetr Antoine Arnauld, Blaise Pascal, and other famous scholars.
glosses: One of the inhabitants in the Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, and later of Port-Royal Abbey, near Paris, France.
Port-Royalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Port-Royalist
content farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of content farm
outsmarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsmarters
Etymology: From outsmart + -er.
Senses: examples: text: You can't outsmart me! I'm the outsmarter-er.
text: […] not just brave and clever, but the beater of Egyptians and the outsmarter of Italians.
ref: 1994, Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes, page 249:
text: He is, after all, having no body left to speak of and confined indoors, now all brain, a manipulator, an outsmarter.
ref: 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 301:
glosses: One who is better at outsmarting people than others; the victor in a battle of wits: trickster, strategist, manipulator
prefabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prefab
prefabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefab
hooven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hoven
Etymology: From hoove + -en.
Senses: examples: hooven cattle
glosses: Affected with the disease called hoove.
etoiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etoile
scrobiculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrobiculated
form: most scrobiculated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrobiculate.
scrobiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrobiculate
form: most scrobiculate
form: scrobiculated
Etymology: From Latin scrobicula /scrobiculus + -ate, diminutive of scrobis (“a ditch or trench”).
Senses: examples: text: The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.
ref: 1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.
romeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romeites
Etymology: From Romé + -ite, named after the French mineralogist Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle. See French roméine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow hexoctahedral calcium antimonate mineral with the chemical formula (Ca,Fe,Mn,Na)₂(Sb,Ti)₂O₆(O,OH,F).
romeites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romeite
verderor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verderors
Senses: examples: text: The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the swein-mote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury.
ref: 1766, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
glosses: Alternative form of verderer.
verderors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verderor
docetisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docetism
sermoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sermon
Plautian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Plautian
form: most Plautian
Etymology: From Plautus + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Plautine
Plautinian
glosses: Of or relating to Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BC), Ancient Roman playwright whose comedies are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature.
homœogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homoeogenesis.
homœoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of homeoblastic.
homœoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homœoids
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homoeoid.
Derived terms: homœoidal
good bye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!” And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:
text: He promised to communicate with me, when anything befel him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both “Good bye!”
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Long Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 334:
text: “If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance. Good bye!” / “Good bye!” they all answered, and away the Queen ran, while Dorothy held Toto tightly lest he should run after her and frighten her.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Queen of the Field Mice”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: Alternative form of goodbye.
homœomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homœomorphs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homeomorph.
racing form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racing forms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scratch sheet.
synonyms: word: scratch sheet
tip sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tip sheets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scratch sheet.
synonyms: word: scratch sheet
homœoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homœoplasties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homeoplasty.
homœomerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homœomerous
form: most homœomerous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homoeomerous.
homeomerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homeomerous
form: most homeomerous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homoeomerous.
hail shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hail shafts
form: hailshaft
form: hail-shaft
Etymology: From hail + shaft.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
glosses: a region of intense rain and hail accompanied by a strong downdraft
hailshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hailshafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hail shaft.
hailshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hail shafts; plural of hailshaft
hail shafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hail shaft
chocolate channel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate channels
Senses: examples: text: At the Australian military academy mentioned above, cadets referenced anal sex with no fewer than sixty-eight terms, many of which invoke food and eating: Captain Cadbury, chieftain of the chocolate channel, chutney passage, doughnut making, doughnut punching, punching a hole through the chocolate, and tonguing someone’s bum.
ref: 2011, Aaron Belkin, Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001, Columbia University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Someone has been shitting in the most peculiar places. The first time the Phantom Shitter as he is known deposited a big pile of his shit; chocolate channel chewies, colon cannon balls or whatever you want to call it was in the tool crib.
ref: 2012, Richard Havermale, The Ice Is Nice and Chee-Chee Is Peachy, self-published, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: The anus or rectum, especially as a sexual orifice.
raw_tags: as an attributive modifier
Vestan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛstən/
Forms: form: Vestian
Etymology: From Vesta + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Vestan, Lunar, and Martian meteorites are achondrites.
ref: 2011, Dieter Rehder, Chemistry in Space:
glosses: Of or relating to the asteroid Vesta
convenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convenance
nimber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪm.bə/
ipa: /ˈnɪm.bəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪmbəɹ
Forms: form: nimbers
Etymology: Blend of nim + number
Senses: synonyms: Grundy number
glosses: Any of a set of number-like objects used in combinatorial game theory, equivalent to the values of heaps in the game of nim.
homaloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek ὁμαλός (homalós, “even, level”) + + -oid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: flat; even; applied to surfaces and spaces in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
Derived terms: homaloid
nonhomaloidal
apagogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apagogic.
oligochete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligochetes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oligochaete.
oligochetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligochete
arriere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑɹ.iˈɛɚ/
Forms: form: arrieres
Etymology: French arrière. See arrear.
Senses: glosses: That which is behind or subordinate; the rear.
Related terms: arriere-ban
arriere fee
arriere fief
arrière-garde
arrière-pensée
arriere vassal
arrière-voussure
en arrière
arrieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arriere
cyberlosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberloser
New Romantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Romantic
Senufo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Senufos
form: Senufo
form: Senoufo
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnolinguistic group composed of diverse subgroups of Gur-speaking people living in an area spanning from southern Mali and the extreme western corner of Burkina Faso to Katiola in Côte d'Ivoire.
Senufo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Senoufo
Senses: glosses: A group of approximately 15 languages spoken by the Senufo.
Related terms: Nafaanra
Senufos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Senufo
Senoufo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Senoufos
form: Senoufo
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Senufo.
Senoufo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Senufo.
Senoufos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Senoufo
inergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnə(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more inergetic
form: most inergetic
Etymology: From in- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: Having no energy; sluggish.
Derived terms: inergetically
spatiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈspeɪʃi.eɪt/
Forms: form: spatiates
form: spatiating
form: spatiated
form: spatiated
Etymology: From Latin spatiātus, past participle of spatior (“walk around, spread out”), from spatium (“space, room”). Compare Italian spaziare, German spazieren.
Senses: examples: text: For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: My spirit feels her freedom, shakes her wings, / Exults and spatiates o'er a thousand scenes[…]
ref: c. 1713, Isaac Watts, A Hymn of Praise for Recovery:
text: […] spatiating, at their leisure, in shady walks and porticos […]
ref: 1759, Richard Hurd, Moral and Political Dialogues:
glosses: To rove or ramble.
spatiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spatiate
spatiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spatiate
spatiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spatiate
ubiquitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubiquitarian
homophylies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homophyly
homophyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homophylies
Etymology: homo- + Ancient Greek φυλή (phulḗ, “clan”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The concept of homophyly suggests that people who share similar backgrounds are more likely to feel comfortable with each other
ref: 1997, Alfred Kadushin, Goldie Kadushin, The Social Work Interview: Fourth Edition:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.
Derived terms: homophylic
Denisovan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dənēʹsəvən
ipa: /dɨˈniːsəvən/
Etymology: From Denisova Cave, where Denisovan remains were discovered, + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Denisovan Man is the first human relative to have been identified purely from DNA, extracted from the bone and a tooth found in the Denisova cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.
ref: 2010 December 23, Hannah Devlin, “Unknown Species of Man Identified from Cave DNA”, in The Times, page 17:
text: A molar tooth, measuring around 1.5cm on each side and found at the site in 2000, also belongs to a Denisovan individual.
ref: 2010 December 23, Ian Sample, "Finger Bone Points to New Human Line", The Guardian, international section, page 18
text: It is the only known place on the planet where three types of humans — Denisovan, Neanderthal and modern — lived, probably not all at once.
ref: 2012 February 1, Alanna Mitchell, “DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All”, in The New York Times, page D1:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.
Hypernyms: human
Coordinate terms: habiline
Neanderthal
Denisovan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dənēʹsəvən
ipa: /dɨˈniːsəvən/
Forms: form: Denisovans
Etymology: From Denisova Cave, where Denisovan remains were discovered, + -an.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, despite their having the entire genome of a Denisovan, Dr. Paabo cannot say much yet about what they were like.
ref: 2010 December 23, Carl Zimmer, “Scant Remains Reveal Ancient Neanderthal Cousins”, in The New York Times, page A14:
text: …this was only the third fossil ever found of a Denisovan, the others being the bit of finger bone and another molar, also from Denisova cave.
ref: 2011 August 26, Ann Gibbons, “Who Were the Denisovans?”, in Science, volume 33, page 1084:
text: The researchers were even able to split and analyze the two strands of the Denisovan's DNA, and thus differentiate the contributions of each parent.
ref: 2012 August 31, John Lauerman, "Ancient Genome, Modern Brains", The Gazette (Montreal), page A2
glosses: A member of an extinct grouping of the genus Homo that lived in the Altay Mountains some 41,000 years ago.
Hypernyms: caveman
hominin
human
human being
Coordinate terms: habiline
Neanderthal
Denisovans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Denisovan
dispensators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispensator
Maronite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmærəˌnaɪt/
Etymology: From Maron + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Saint Maron or the Maronite Church.
Maronite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmærəˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: Maronites
Etymology: From Maron + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Maronite Church.
Hypernyms: Eastern Catholic
Uniate
Coordinate terms: Armenian Catholic
Coptic Catholic
Eritrean Catholic
Ethiopian Catholic
Greek Catholic
Syriac Catholic
Derived terms: Maronitic
Maronitism
helispheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helispheric
form: most helispheric
form: helispherical
Etymology: From helix and spheric.
Senses: glosses: spiral
outlustre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outlustres
form: outlustring
form: outlustred
form: outlustred
Etymology: From out- + lustre.
Senses: examples: text: that diamond of yours outlustres many
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: Her plumage outlustred the pride o' the spring.
ref: a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Heather was Blooming:
text: So she has dreams, and in her dreams, / Joy to outlustre joy by day[…]
ref: 1869, John Edward Howell, Poems: Volume 1, page 123:
glosses: To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
outlustred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outlustre
outlustres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outlustre
outlustring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outlustre
dysphagias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysphagia
cricopharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
-ɪndʒəl
Etymology: From crico- + pharyngeal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the cricopharyngeus.
thyropharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
-ɪndʒəl
Etymology: From thyro- + pharyngeal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the thyropharyngeus.
cricopharyngeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricopharyngei
Senses: examples: text: Force must not be used, but steady firm pressure against the tonically contracted cricopharyngeus is made, while at the same time the distal end of the esophagoscope is lifted by the left thumb.
ref: 1922, Chevalier Jackson, Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
Related terms: cricopharyngeal
thyropharyngeus
thyropharyngeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyropharyngei
Etymology: From thyro- + Latin pharyngeus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The superior part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the thyroid cartilage.
Related terms: cricopharyngeus
thyropharyngeal
thyropharyngei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyropharyngeus
cricopharyngei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricopharyngeus
catproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catproof
catproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catproof
cricoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricoid
brocatelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brocatelle
cavatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavatine
Hunnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌnɪk/
Forms: form: more Hunnic
form: most Hunnic
Etymology: From Hun + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Huns.
Synonyms: Hunnish
Derived terms: Hunnic Empire
Hunnic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌnɪk/
Etymology: From Hun + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Huns.
Synonyms: Hunnish
God is in the detail
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Expresses the idea that whatever one does should be done thoroughly; i.e. details are important.
glosses: Expresses the idea that truth is in the details; therefore, the more details someone provides, the more likely they are to be telling the truth.
Related terms: devil is in the details
CubeSat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CubeSats
Etymology: Shortened from cube + satellite. Coined in 2000 as a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A standard, low-cost miniature satellite formed of small cubes.
CubeSats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CubeSat
dissimulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissimuler
mollities ossium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mollitiēs ossium (“softness of the bones”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: osteomalacia
lunulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lunulate
form: most lunulate
form: lunulated
Etymology: See lunula.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling a small crescent
Derived terms: sublunulate
propugners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propugner
tribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tribe
12-ounce curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelve-ounce curls
Etymology: From the size of common beer containers (bottles and cans) in the United States: 12 ounces + curls, a weightlifting exercise. The notion is of lifting a can of beer to one's lips repeatedly.
Senses: examples: text: Don't burn out your biceps with 12-ounce curls.
ref: 2006 June, Scott Quill, “Muscle Bulletin: Pass the Bar”, in Men's Health, →ISSN:
glosses: The activity of drinking beer.
mamzelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamzelles
form: ma'amselle
form: mamsell
form: mamselle
Senses: glosses: A mademoiselle; an unmarried French lady.
blotchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blotch + work.
Senses: examples: text: , London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 19,
He was clothed in what had once been a suit of black material, but was now so bleached by sun and soaked in a hundred dews that it had become a threadbare blotchwork of olive-and-grey rags […]
text: Her cheeks were a hideous blotchwork of flush and pallor, and there were great blackened hollows under her grit-sealed eyes.
ref: 1983, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale:
text: The brain had been removed, the emptied interior case showing in its blotchwork signs of siriasis or, as it is commonly called, sideration.
ref: 2000, Brian Evenson, Contagion and other stories:
glosses: Something with a blotchy appearance.
promoving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of promove
crepance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepances
Etymology: Compare Latin crepare (“to crack”).
Senses: glosses: An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg, and sometimes causing an ulcer.
Related terms: speedy cut
crepances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crepance
dirt cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt cakes
Senses: glosses: A kind of American dessert made from broken cookies and pudding, sometimes with gummy worms added, and resembling dirt.
dirt cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirt cake
pooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooids
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the grass subfamily Pooideae.
pooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pooid
Mississippi mud pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mississippi mud pies
Etymology: So named because of its likely origin in Mississippi and resemblance to mud, as the pie’s appearance could remind casual observers of Mississippi River mud.
Senses: glosses: A dessert pie with gooey chocolate sauce on a crumbly chocolate crust.
Related terms: dirt cake
mud pie
Mississippi mud pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mississippi mud pie
nyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of nye
fraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frater
frater house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frater houses
form: frater-house
Etymology: Compound of frater + house.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fratery.
synonyms: word: fratery
frater houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frater house
frater-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frater-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frater house.
trackies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackie
glosses: plural of tracky
coxalgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coxalgia
he-whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: he-whores
Etymology: From he- + whore.
Senses: examples: text: “Probably a he-whore putting his name about so he'd have plenty of trade,” Raga panted.
ref: 1993, Harry Turtledove, Departures, page 21:
text: "Home-wrecker," said Dwayne with a deadpan gasp of mock shock. "My lover, the he-whore," Ted added.
ref: 1996, Karen Lee Osborne, William J. Spurlin, Reclaiming the Heartland: Lesbian and Gay Voices from the Midwest, page 64:
text: They ranged from "Ladies' Man" to "he-whore". Usually, except when he was feeling very contemptuous of himself, or when he had contributed blood to the Red Cross and felt very honorable, Wilkins thought of himself as a gigolo.
ref: 2007, Jim Harmon, Maniac Siren: The Man Who Made Maniacs and Silent Siren, page 73:
glosses: A male prostitute; a gigolo.
coxalgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coxalgies
Etymology: From coxa- + -algy.
Borrowed from Latin coxa (“hip”) + Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of coxalgia.
he-whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of he-whore
celebrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more celebrational
form: most celebrational
Etymology: From celebration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: No known human society exists without celebrational rituals.
ref: 1983, David Michael Thomas, Christian Marriage: A Journey Together, page 78:
glosses: Of or relating to celebration.
Related terms: celebratory
juxtaepiphyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of juxtaepiphysial.
epiphysial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epiphyseal.
Derived terms: juxtaepiphysial
duffest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of duff: most duff
vexillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more vexillar
form: most vexillar
form: vexillary
Etymology: Compare French vexillaire, Latin vexillarius, a standard-bearer.
Senses: examples: text: the vexillar side
text: vexillar stamen
text: the vexillar side
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.
octogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having eight pistils.
plectognathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plectognathic
form: most plectognathic
form: plectognathous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the plectognaths.
plectognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plectognathous
form: most plectognathous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plectognathic.
bowler hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowler hat
Webelos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Webelos
Etymology: An invented term that originated in the Boy Scouts of America c. 1954. The Bear Cub Scout Book of 1954 claims that "Webelos" is an American Indian tribe of which Akela is chief, and that the name comes from "Wolf, Bear, Lion, Scout." The rank of Lion Scout was later dropped, but the term "Webelos" was kept. Through folk etymology, it is now commonly stated that the term derives from "we'll be loyal Scouts," although this was not the term's original meaning.http://books.google.com/books?id=Nf0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=webelo+scout+%22wolf%22+bear+lion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fXSNUN_-C9S80QHW6IGYAg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=webelo%20scout%20%22wolf%22%20bear%20lion&f=false
Senses: glosses: A young scout in the Boy Scouts of America who is working his way up to the Boy Scouts.
Webelos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An invented term that originated in the Boy Scouts of America c. 1954. The Bear Cub Scout Book of 1954 claims that "Webelos" is an American Indian tribe of which Akela is chief, and that the name comes from "Wolf, Bear, Lion, Scout." The rank of Lion Scout was later dropped, but the term "Webelos" was kept. Through folk etymology, it is now commonly stated that the term derives from "we'll be loyal Scouts," although this was not the term's original meaning.http://books.google.com/books?id=Nf0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=webelo+scout+%22wolf%22+bear+lion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fXSNUN_-C9S80QHW6IGYAg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=webelo%20scout%20%22wolf%22%20bear%20lion&f=false
Senses: examples: text: As a Webelo (age 10), he earned all the awards available in that level of Scouting. […] He became a Boy Scout this year after moving up through Cubs and Webelos. As a Webelo, he earned all the[…]
ref: 1979, Lois Hedgecock Gay, Generations: The Margaret and Samuel Clinard Clan of North Carolina:
text: "He could jump right in as a Webelo.” Even before Art said it, everyone who'd ever seen Scot instinctively knew he was a Webelo. […] We just need some time to read a little more about Webelos.
ref: 2010 05, Michael Downing, Breakfast with Scot, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 210:
text: I was teaching Wolf, Bear Dens, and Webelos on Tuesdays and Cubs on Wednesdays. I honestly don't know how I managed to handle this. I know Heavenly Father was giving me help. One of my sons was a Webelo and one was a Bear Cub.
ref: 2013 January 27, Rosetta Fairbanks, Learning from an Angel One Day at a Time, Rosetta R. Fairbanks, →ISBN, page 88:
text: “Not my finest hour,” he admitted with a faint smile. “But I did belong to the Webelos, if that helps.” “What's a Webelo?” Ian laughed. “Webelos. We be loyal Scouts.” “Are you in good standing with them?” “As far as I know.” “Then swear on your honor as a Webelo that you won't laugh.”
ref: 2014 March 1, Judy Duarte, Teresa Southwick, Joanna Sims, Harlequin Special Edition March 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2: An Anthology, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: “My boy's a Webelo. Why else would I be sleeping in a tent?! There's a reason we started building ... Then the Webelos came back, loudly talking about how they had all started fires. Pack 116, building pyromaniacs one boy at a time!
ref: 2014 July 30, Rollie Lawson, A Fresh Start: Book 6, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: I made it just far enough to become a “Webelo,” which is scouting's equivalent of a “tween,” a boy no longer a cub but not yet whatever is supposed to come next. A man? A bear? An eagle? A fake Indian? (Webelos are referred to as a[…]
ref: 2018 August 28, Michael P. Branch, How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: plural of Webelo
parps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parp
parps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parp
parped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parp
parping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parp
parping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parpings
Senses: examples: text: As a result, the catalogue was dominated by the usual comedic corn and the martial parpings of Arthur Pryor's band.
ref: 2004, Louis Barfe, Where have all the good times gone?:
glosses: A sound that parps, as of a horn or trumpet.
parpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parping
assuments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assument
Bosha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From one of the languages spoken in the Caucasus where the people reside; see Russian боша (boša), Armenian բոշա (boša), Georgian ბოშა (boša), Turkish and Azerbaijani Poşa, Boşa.
Senses: examples: text: The Bosha are Central Gypsy (Lomavren) speakers (Patkanoff 1908-1909; le Redžosko 1984); but what is noteworthy is the presence of two Romani (i.e., European or Western) Gypsy-speaking populations in the Middle East: the Ghagar in Egypt (Sampson 1928; Hanna 1982), and the Zagari in Iran (Windfugr 1970).
ref: 1988, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter, editors, Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé, page 199:
glosses: The Lom, a nomadic people related to the Rom and Dom, with origins in India, who reside in the South Caucasus; Caucasian Gypsies.
craig flounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craig flounders
Etymology: From Scots craig (“a rock”). See crag.
Senses: glosses: A flatfish of the North Atlantic, witch flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus).
Synonyms: sense: flounder
word: witch
sense: flounder
word: Torbay sole
cachectical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cachectical
form: most cachectical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cachectic.
bandanaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bandannaed
Etymology: From bandana + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a bandana.
bandannaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bandanaed.
conjecturals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjectural
alisphenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alisphenoid
unstraightforward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstraightforward
form: most unstraightforward
Etymology: From un- + straightforward.
Senses: examples: text: …blame attaches solely to the Liberal Government then in power, for its tortuous and unstraightforward policy.
ref: 1887, A. C. Yate, England and Russia Face to Face in Asia, William Blackwood and Sons, page 443:
text: …I have been no kinder to IBM concerning IBM's abandonment of OS/2 (which is, in fact, what IBM is doing despite a superficial pretense at "continuing to support and enhance" the product) than I was concerning Microsoft's equally unstraightforward abandonment of OS/2 the winter of '90/'91.
ref: 1996 August 23, Will Zachmann, “Re: Will Zachmann drops OS/2 ??”, in alt.org.team-os2 (Usenet):
text: The answer I will suggest to both questions is “yes,” although in rather surprising and unstraightforward ways.
ref: 2012, Peter Sayer, Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Not straightforward; oblique, evasive, equivocal, indirect.
Derived terms: unstraightforwardly
unstraightforwardness
xenophobically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more xenophobically
form: most xenophobically
Etymology: From xenophobic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a xenophobic manner.
hormone therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hormone therapy
grey magic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gray magic.
anthropophagical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropophagical
form: most anthropophagical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthropophagic.
bobble hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobble hat
gray magick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes you will hear people talk about gray magick.
ref: 2003, Ellen Dugan, Elements of Witchcraft: Natural Magick for Teens, page 203:
text: The wrong spell done for the right reason would be an example of doing gray magick
ref: 2006, Denise Zimmermann, Katherine A. Gleason, and Miria Liguana, chapter 16, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca And Witchcraft:
glosses: Alternative form of gray magic.
gray magic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray magick
form: grey magic
form: grey magick
Senses: examples: text: The term “gray” evolved for magic that could be classified as neither white nor black. Minor revenge would be considered a type of gray magic.
ref: 2002, Marion Weinstein, Positive Magic: Ancient Metaphysical Techniques for Modern Lives, page 63:
text: Copper remembered the old Grimoire she and Silver had used to learn gray magic.
ref: 2006, Cheyenne McCray, Seduced by Magic, page 3:
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any magic which transcends or blends white magic and black magic.
passeroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passeroids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the birds in the superfamily Passeroidea.
passeroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passeroid
outgos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outgo
rally cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæl.i ˌkæp/
Forms: form: rally caps
form: rally-cap
Senses: examples: text: His cap was turned backwards in the manner of a catcher or a rally-cap, though he had no intention of catching and there certainly wasn't a rally going on.
ref: 2001, Melissa M. Dudek, Wildfire Summer: A Season With the Wyoming Wildfire, page 56:
text: "It's a rally cap! It's a rally cap!” shouted her father teasingly, rubbing her head with every base runner.
ref: 2005, Allen St. John, chapter 9, in Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument, page 89:
text: […]Brian always wore a Detroit Tigers baseball cap. He would turn his cap into a "rally cap" when anyone needed a bit of a rally in their lives.
ref: 2007, April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers, page 207:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A baseball cap worn inside-out and backwards, or in another unconventional manner, by players or fans, as a talisman in order to will a team into a come-from-behind rally late in the game.
Related terms: rally
rally caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rally cap
abjadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From abjad + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Though terms from more than thirty ancient languages are present in the most commonly used dialects of Terran Orthodox, its script developed primarily from a combination of ancient abjadic and syllabic writing systems.
ref: 2008, Tom Terry, City of Heaven, page 265:
glosses: Of or relating to an abjad (writing system with glyphs for consonants).
Octoberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Octoberish
form: most Octoberish
Etymology: From October + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: a chilly Octoberish smell of cured leaves
ref: 1987, Wallace Earle Stegner, Crossing to Safety:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the month of October.
Novemberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Novemberish
form: most Novemberish
form: Novembrish
Etymology: From November + -ish.
Senses: examples: c. 1794, Robert Burns, letter to unknown woman
[…] here I sit, altogether Novemberish, a damned melange of fretfulness and melancholy […]
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the month of November.
rawbone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rawbone
form: most rawbone
Senses: examples: text: His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine / Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dyne.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35:
glosses: Alternative form of rawboned.
involucrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnvəˈluːkɹɪt/
ipa: /ˌɪnvəˈluːkɹeɪt/
rhymes: -uːkɹeɪt
Forms: form: more involucrate
form: most involucrate
form: involucrated
Senses: examples: text: involucrate clovers
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an involucre; involucred.
involucrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more involucrated
form: most involucrated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of involucrate.
hypermetropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of hypermetropia.
asthenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asthenia
astheny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asthenies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of asthenia.
unknowingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unknowing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Or it may be true, which I have heard, that after the period of our very earliest recollections, then a space intervenes of entire unknowingness, followed again by the first dim glimpses of the succeeding memory, more or less distinctly embracing all our past up to that one early gap in it.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The quality of not knowing; ignorance of something.
gauntree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauntrees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gantry.
gauntry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauntries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gantry.
evets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evet
corollate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corollate
form: most corollate
form: corollated
Etymology: From corolla + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having or resembling a corolla.
corollated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corollated
form: most corollated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corollate.
sea girdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds.
Synonyms: oarweed
tangle kelp
sea wand
seaware
tangle
diacope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek διακοπή (diakopḗ, “gash, cleft, rupture”), from διά (diá, “through, across”) + κοπή (kopḗ, “cutting”)
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: tmesis
thyrsoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thyrsoid
form: most thyrsoid
Etymology: From thyrsus + -oid.
Senses: synonyms: thyrsoidal
glosses: Having the approximate form of a thyrse or thyrsus.
thyrsoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrsoids
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of thyrse.
synonyms: word: thyrse
thyrsoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thyrsoidal
form: most thyrsoidal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thyrsoid.
procrastined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of procrastine
faunus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauni
Etymology: From Latin faunus.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of faun.
guibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guib
phyton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytons
form: phyta
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves.
glosses: The smallest cutting from a root, stem, or leaf that can grow into a new plant.
Synonyms: phytomer
Derived terms: phytonic
phytonism
phytons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyton
adinazolam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -azolam (“diazepam derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A benzodiazepine drug with anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative, and antidepressant properties.
almasilate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antacid.
alfuzosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æl ˈfju zoʊ sɪn/
Senses: glosses: An α₁ receptor antagonist used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia.
hexanediamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexane + diamide.
Senses: glosses: adipamide
anazocine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -azocine (“narcotic antagonist/agonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An opioid analgesic of the morphan family which was never marketed.
Synonyms: azabicyclane
azabicyclane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug anazocine.
morphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphans
Senses: glosses: A chemical compound, the base of the benzomorphan family of drugs.
Related terms: morphinan
morphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphan
alphameprodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alpha + meprodine.
Senses: glosses: One of the isomers of meprodine.
betameprodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beta + meprodine.
Senses: glosses: One of the isomers of meprodine.
aminomethylphosphonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A weak organic acid with a phosphonic acid group, one of the primary degradation products of the herbicide glyphosate.
Synonyms: AMPA