circular fashion

Coined in 2014 by Anna Brismar, the owner of Green Strategy, and another expert in Sweden.

Circular fashion is the intersection of the circular economy (a model that exchanges the typical cycle of take-make-waste in favour of reusing and recycling as much as possible) and sustainable and ethical fashion.

2022 September 19, Madeleine Hill, “What Is Circular Fashion?”, in Good On You:

(fashion, ecology, neologism) Clothes that are designed and made in such a way that they will last for a long time, can eventually be repaired or redesigned instead of being thrown away, and cause little or no damage to the environment.


-gonium

From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “engendering”) + -ium (“structure”).

der

archegonium, carpogonium

(biology, mycology) A reproductive structure of some organisms

perigonium

gametogonium, spermatogonium

(biology) An immature cell that will develop into a reproductive one


gloeo-

Derived from Ancient Greek γλοιός (gloiós).

der+

gloeo- + vessel → gloeovessel

gloeo- + cystidium → gloeocystidium

(biology) Having the character of glue; sticky.


D-value

en-noun

D-value (countable and uncountable, plural D-values)

(microbiology) In a sterilization procedure, the amount of time required, at a given condition, to kill 90% of relevant microorganisms.


utilization time

utilization time (countable and uncountable, plural utilization times)

utilization times (plural)
utilisation time (alternative)

(biology) The amount of time taken by a stimulus of rheobasic strength that is sufficiently enough to excite the nerve and produce a muscle contraction.


queen retinue pheromone

queen retinue pheromone (plural queen retinue pheromones)

(biochemistry) A kind of honey bee pheromone that serves to attract a circle of bees around the queen.


mandibular pheromone

mandibular pheromone (plural mandibular pheromones)

queen retinue pheromone
queen retinue pheromone#English

(biochemistry) Synonym of queen retinue pheromone


incubation time

incubation time (countable and uncountable, plural incubation times)

(biology, sciences) The duration required for a process to complete, such as the time for an organism to develop or a reaction to occur.


thermal death time

thermal death time (countable and uncountable, plural thermal death times)

(microbiology) The amount of time required to kill a specific bacterium at a specific temperature.


neuraxon

neuraxons (plural)
neuraxone (alternative)


amphisexual

(biology) Able to develop into either sex.


survival time

survival time (countable and uncountable, plural survival times)

(biology, sciences) The moment in time from a fixed starting point to the onset of an event of interest.


dextrinization time

dextrinization time (countable and uncountable, plural dextrinization times)

(biochemistry) The amount of time required for a starch molecule to be converted to dextrin.


stimulus-response time

stimulus-response time (countable and uncountable, plural stimulus-response times)

Coordinate term: reaction time

(biology) The amount of time required for an organism to react to an external stimulus, often without conscious thought.


conduction time

conduction time (countable and uncountable, plural conduction times)

(biology, neurology) The total amount of time required for a signal to travel from its starting point to its target.

(biology, neurology) The numerical difference between the latencies at the first recording electrode for each position.


balling gun

It is very easy to misuse the balling gun and cause a serious "choke" in the horse or damage to the back of the throat.

2006, T. A. Landers, Professional Care of the Racehorse, page 253:

Before passing a balling gun into the patient's oral cavity, a quick assessment of the patient's size is mandatory.

2007, Thomas J. Divers, Simon F. Peek, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, page 21:

This instrument is available in various sizes for use in different species. Cattle require a balling gun with a large head and long handle, with a metal or flexible plastic head.

2016, Margi Sirois, Principles and Practice of Veterinary Technology, page 673:

(veterinary medicine) A device for forcing a pill or bolus of medicine down the throat of an animal.


balling-iron

Named for its original use in forcing open the mouth of an animal for balling.

After a due examination of the mouth has been made, and we have selected the tooth to be operated upon, the animal should be restrained by means of a twitch, and a balling-iron ought then to be placed in the mouth . The common open balling-iron will answer the purpose, but the one I would recommend you to use is that invented by Mr. Varnell .

1851, The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, page 635:

It is necessary at times to give a medicinal ball to a horse, and as few grooms are expert at administering a ball without assistance, a balling-iron affords them that assistance.

1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines, page 532:

Every groom should know how to give a ball, which is managed either with or without a balling-iron, an instrument which is seldom wanted , and which sometimes occasions considerable mischief to the roof of the horse's mouth .

1873, George Armatage, The horse, page 158:

The man using a balling-iron has, therefore, to guard himself from blows rapidly dealt with the fore hoofs of a desperate animal.

1876, Edward Mayhew, Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Management, page 42:

(veterinary medicine) A piece of shaped metal that forces the mouth of an animal to stay open.


helophilous

en-adj

helophilous (comparative more helophilous, superlative most helophilous)

more helophilous (comparative)
most helophilous (superlative)

hélophile

needing or tolerating a high level of sunlight


ombrohydrochory

(botany) Dissemination of the diaspores by rain water


whelping ice

(zoology) The section of ice where seals give birth to their young.


squamelliform

squamelliform (comparative more squamelliform, superlative most squamelliform)

more squamelliform (comparative)
most squamelliform (superlative)


squamelliferous

squamelliferous (comparative more squamelliferous, superlative most squamelliferous)

more squamelliferous (comparative)
most squamelliferous (superlative)


spadiciform

spadiciform (comparative more spadiciform, superlative most spadiciform)

more spadiciform (comparative)
most spadiciform (superlative)

From Latin spadix (“inflorescence”, stem spadic-) + -iform.


smoothbark

(botany) Having smooth bark (used in the names of plants).


Crabtree effect

en-noun

Crabtree effect (plural Crabtree effects)

Named after biologist Herbert Grace Crabtree, whose study of the carbohydrate metabolism of tumours led the discovery of the effect.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae#Translingual

tricarboxylic acid cycle
tricarboxylic acid cycle

(biochemistry) The phenomenon whereby the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, produces ethanol in aerobic conditions at high external glucose concentrations rather than aerobically producing biomass via the tricarboxylic acid cycle as it's common in most yeasts.


Eagle effect

Named after Harry Eagle who first described it.

(microbiology, pharmacology) A phenomenon observed in which higher concentrations of antibiotics paradoxically improve bacterial survival.


Emerson effect

Named after Robert Emerson who described the effect in 1957.

(biochemistry) The increase in the rate of photosynthesis after chloroplasts are exposed to light of wavelength 680 nm (deep red spectrum) and more than 680 nm (far red spectrum).


Kautsky effect

(physics, biology) The variation in a plant fluorescence when exposed to light.


maternal effect

maternal effect (plural maternal effects)

(evolutionary theory, genetics) A situation where the phenotype of an organism is determined not only by the environment it experiences and its genotype, but also by the environment and genotype of its mother.


mid-domain effect

mid-domain effect (plural mid-domain effects)

(ecology) The hypothesis that species richness tends to peak in the middle of a geographic range or habitat rather than at the extremes; an attempt to explain the observed pattern of latitudinal gradients in species diversity.


Pasteur effect

Named after Louis Pasteur who first described the effect in 1857.

(biochemistry) The phenomenon in which the cellular presence of oxygen causes in cells a decrease in the rate of glycolysis and also a suppression of lactate accumulation.


lysogeny broth

The medium was invented by microbial geneticist Giuseppe Bertani, who published his formula in a 1951 paper on lysogeny.

2019, Uranbileg Dhaalkhaijav, Angela L. Dunham, Travis W. Walker, Chapter 2: Effects of Medium Components on the Bulk Rheology and on the Formation of Ferning Patterns for Biofilm of Pseudomonas aeroginosa, Dinesh Sriramulu (editor), Pseudomonas Aeruginosa: An Armory Within, IntechOpen, page 6,
Lysogeny broth was formulated by Giusseppe Bertani in 1951 to optimize Shigella growth, but has since become the standard for growing many microbial cultures [19].

2022 June 27, Žana Lovšin, Anja Klančnik, Tadej Kotnik, Electroporation as an Efficacy Potentiator for Antibiotics With Different Target Sites, Aleksandra P. Djukic-Vukovic, Daniela De Biase, Peter Adrian Lund, Nuno Pereira Mira, Jana Sedlakova-Kadukova (editors), Microbial Stress, Frontiers Media (Frontiers in Microbiology), page 35,
Then, a 100 μL volume was taken from each sample and mixed with 100 μL of either lysogeny broth (for control and electroporation-only experiments) or lysogeny broth supplemented with the antibiotic at the final concentration required for the post-pulse predilution incubation.

2022, Irem Unalan, et al., Physical and Antibacterial Properties of Peppermint Oil Loaded Poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) Electrospun Fiber Mats for Wound Healing, Gianluca Ciardelli, Ipsita Roy, Jochen Salber, Antonia Nostro, Aldo R. Boccaccini (editors), Combating Bacterial Infections Through Biomimetic or Bioinspired Materials Design and Enabling Technologies, Frontiers Media (Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology), page 11,
The lysogeny broth medium and bacterial cell suspension in lysogeny broth medium were used as blank and control.

(microbiology) A nutritionally rich culture medium primarily used for the growth of bacteria.

milieu LB

culture medium used for the growth of bacteria


Succulent Karoo

(ecology) An ecoregion in South Africa and Namibia.


Wahlund effect

Named after Swedish geneticist Sten Wahlund who described the effect in 1928.

(genetics) A reduction of heterozygosity in a population caused by subpopulation structure.


Wallace effect

(ecology, evolutionary biology) A process of speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation between two populations of species as a result of selection acting against the production of hybrid individuals of low fitness.


FLiRT

(virology) A subvariant of the Omicron variant, scientifically known as KP.2 and KP.1.1.


chimabachid

(entomology) Any member of the Chimabachinae subfamily of moths


pelory

pelory (countable and uncountable, plural pelories)


gregaric

en-adj

gregaric (comparative more gregaric, superlative most gregaric)

more gregaric (comparative)
most gregaric (superlative)

Within the Araschnia-clade, larval gregaric habits, host plants, and the conspicuously reddish

2004 March 1, Z. Fric, M. Konvicka, J. Zrzavy, “Red & black or black & white? Phylogeny of the Araschnia butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and evolution of seasonal polyphenism”, in Journal of Evolutionary Biology, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 265–278:


-plasm

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something molded”); a doublet of plasma used mostly in biology.


white blood

From white + blood. First appears c. 1398 in a publication by John Trevisa.

(biology, zoology, uncommon) Blood devoid of red blood cells, commonly found in invertebrates.


trypticase soy agar

This procedure was repeated with distilled water instead of the trypticase soy agar.

1969, Public Health Monograph No. 78: A Study of the Application of Laminar Flow Ventilation to Operating Rooms, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare:

1973, G. Briggs Phillips, Robert S. Runkle, Biomedical Applications of Laminar Airflow, 2019 eBook Edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), unnumbered page,
Using sterile forceps, aseptically remove the stainless steel strip from the bottle and place the strip on a 9 ±2 ml layer of solidified, sterile trypticase soy agar contained in a 100 mm diameter Petri plate. Add 20 ml of sterile molten (50°C) trypticase soy agar to completely cover the stainless steel strip.

2019, Moshrafuddin Ahmed, S. K. Basumatary, Applied Microbiology, Tamilnadu Book House (MJP Publishers), page 604,
3. Incubate two trypticase soy agar slants by means of streak inoculation

(microbiology) A growth medium for culturing moderately to non-fastidious bacteria.


genonym

(taxonomy, dated) Generic name; the name of a genus.


prionopterous

(entomology) Having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).


cold-aridiphilous

(malacology) Liking cold and arid conditions.


eopterosaurian

(paleontology) Any member of the Eopterosauria clade of pterosaurs.


talonic acid

(biochemistry) (2S,3S,4S,5R)-2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoic acid, an epimer of galactonic acid.


talonic

(biochemistry) Of or relating to talonic acid.


guanosine triphosphate

en-noun

guanosine triphosphate (plural guanosine triphosphates)

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) A type of purine nucleoside triphosphate that is needed for the synthesis of RNA during transcription.


GTPase

guanosine triphosphate
guanosine triphosphate

guanosine diphosphate
guanosine diphosphate

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) Any of a large family of hydrolase enzymes that bind to the nucleotide guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and hydrolyze it to guanosine diphosphate (GDP).


guanosine diphosphate

guanosine diphosphate (plural guanosine diphosphates)

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) An ester of pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside guanosine; the product of dephosphorylation (via hydrolysis) of GTP by a GTPase.

guanosine diphosphate

ester of pyrophosphoric acid with guanosine


postcleithrum

(ichthyology) A bone in the pectoral girdle of teleost fishes.


Nubian woodpecker

Nubian woodpecker (plural Nubian woodpeckers)

(ornithology) A bird of species Campethera nubica in the family Picidae.


spicately

en-adv

spicately (comparative more spicately, superlative most spicately)

more spicately (comparative)
most spicately (superlative)

Leaves dilated, verticillate or alternate flowers; racemose or spicately racemose.

1839, Robert Sweet, F.L.S., edited by George Don, F.L.S., SWEET'S HORTUS BRITANNICUS; OR, A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE PLANTS INDIGENOUS OR CULTIVATED IN THE GARDENS OF GREAT BRITAIN, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE NATURAL SYSTEM, WITH THE GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES ENGLISH NAMES ACCENTUATION DERIVATION OF GENERIC NAMES NATIVE COUNTRY YEAR OF INTRODUCTION TIME OF FLOWERING COLOUR OF FLOWERS MODE OF GROWTH DURATION REFERENCES TO THE BEST FIGURES THE MOST USEFUL SYNONYMES THE LINNEAN CLASS AND ORDER TO WHICH EACH GENUS BELONGS, Third edition, London: James Ridgeway, page 513:

The arrangement of individual inflorescence units is highly variable in Nivenia and Aristea but the ancestral condition is most likely racemose (Goldblatt, 1993a,b) with lateral inflorescences borne on short lateral branches (sessile lateral branches, thus spicately arranged, are considered homologous)

2004 January, Goldblatt, Peter, Le Thomas, Annick, Suárez-Cervera, Maria, “Phylogeny of the Afro-Madagascan Aristea (Iridaceae) revisited in the light of new data on pollen morphology.”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 144, number 1, Appendix (section 16), page 67:

They consist of spicately or paniculately arranged glomerules of flowers.

2024 June 7, Wikipedia contributors, “Chenopodium”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

(botany) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.


protogen

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-protogen.wav

It is also said that in plants of the turnip tribe a substance occurs of the same complicated composition as the protogen of the brain, and that these elements split up naturally, in the same mauner as they do when decomposed artificially, and in both cases phosphoric acid, sugar, and nitrogenous substances like neurin and oxyneurin, result from the process.

1870 November 28, “Editor's Scientific Record”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 42, Harper & Brothers, page 629:

In each case a factor was found to be required which was not one of the known coenzymes. These factors were known variously as pyruvate oxidation factor, protogen, and thioctic acid or a-lipoic acid, but by 1952 it was evident that they were one and the same compound.

1961, Michael Wells Neil, Basic Biochemistry, Lippincott, page 47:

It was suggested by Granick (1961) that in animal mitochondria Proto was probably formed from protoporphyrinogen (Protogen) (VIII; Fig. 1) by an enzymatic oxidation that involves the removal of six hydrogens from the Protogen ring.

1982, Constantin A. Rebeiz and June Lascelles, “Biosynthesis of Pigments in Plants and Bacteria”, in Govindjee, editor, Energy Conversion by Plants and Bacteria^(https://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee/Electronic%20Publications/Books/Photosynthesis%20(1982).pdf), volume 1, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 750:

Peroxidizing compounds inhibit the protoporphyrinogen oxidase in the bio-synthetic pathway (protox, EC 1.3.3.4) which oxidizes protoporphyrinogen (protogen; Matringe and Scalla 1988; Matringe et al. 1989). The protogen precursors uro- and coproporphyrinogen are not oxidized (Duke et al. 1994).

2012, Ko Wakabayashi, Peter Böger, “General Physiological Characteristics and Mode of Action of Peroxidizing Herbicides”, in Ko Wakabayashi, Peter Böger, editor, Peroxidizing Herbicides, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 174:

(biochemistry) Short for protoporphyrinogen.


seat out

en-verb

seat out (third-person singular simple present seats out, present participle seating out, simple past and past participle seated out)

seats out (present singular third-person)
seating out (participle present)
seated out (participle past)
seated out (past)

(equestrianism, veterinary medicine) To modify a horseshoe to relieve pressure from the sole.


root disease

(phytopathology) Any of several plant diseases affecting the root system.


self-sustenance

We are all for utility; and it would be ‘well that it should be so, if, like the boar of the forest, which delves up the flower to get at the root, we had no instincts beyond those of self-sustenance. But, as we have the immortal power of imagination, we are bound to provide nutriment for that celestial part of us, not less than for that which we hold in common with the brutes.

1830, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1830-02: Volume 27, Issue 162, Blackwood Pillans and Wilson, page 262:

This and other institutions have considered these questions anxiously and ceaselessly. They have endeavored to shape their plans of education and training for the future good, and, as far as possible, to secure the self-sustenance of their pupils.

1832, Perkins School for the Blind, Annual Report, Charles B. Slack, page 15:

The propensities have all reference to self-sustenance, self-gratification, or self-aggrandizement, and do not give rise to a single feeling of disinterested love or regard for the happiness of other beings. Even the domestic affections, wThen acting independently of the moral sentiments, prompt us to seek only a selfish gratification, without regard to the welfare of the beings who afford it.

1842, George Combe, Moral Philosophy, W. H. Colyer, page 168:

The enormous expense of supporting fourteen hundred persons — about one-five-hundredth part of the whole population of this commonwealth — in a state of idiocy : and 2d, the motives of humanity, to give, if possible, to these wretched creatures some idea of responsible life, some means and power of self-sustenance, and some self-respect.

1849, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Charles B. Slack, page 440:

When Sir Peregrine asked her whether he should seat her on the sofa, she slowly picked herself up, and, with her head still crouching toward the ground, placed herself where she before had been sitting. He had been afraid that she would have fainted, but she was not one of those women whose nature easily admits of such relief as that. Though she was always pale in color and frail-looking, there was within her a great power of self-sustenance. She was a woman who with a good cause might have dared any thing.

1850, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine, Harper & Brothers, page 640:

(physics, rare, fantasy, science fiction, biology) The independent sustenance of oneself, such as not requiring much oxygen to breathe or food to eat and liquids to drink like average species.


dummy foal

From dummy + foal, due to their tendency to wander aimlessly.

(veterinary medicine, informal) A foal suffering from neonatal maladjustment syndrome.


dummy foal syndrome

From dummy foal + syndrome, due to its sufferers being dubbed dummy foals.

(veterinary medicine, informal) Neonatal maladjustment syndrome.


lycaena

A learned borrowing from translingual Lycaena, from Ancient Greek λῠ́καινᾰ f (lŭ́kaină, “she-wolf”).

der

(lepidoptery, especially taxonomy) Any butterfly of the genus Lycaena.


out of heat

(biology) In dioestrus; unreceptive to mating.


elastic fiber

elastic fibers (plural)
elastic fibre (alternative)

(biology) Any of the extracellular yellowish fibers, composed primarily of elastin, which provide elasticity to structures such as the lungs, the skin, and blood vessels.


cladial

Berry (1964) provided a comprehensive description of the species and Maletz (1994) confirmed Berry's consclusions concering the proximal development and cladial branching of Pterograptus from isolated material.

2005, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 42, Issues 5-8, page 800:

Several stages in the development of a cladium, showing the secondary nema as the leading rod of the cladial stipe (based on Bulman 1970a, Fig. 65).

2017, Jörg Maletz, Graptolite Paleobiology, page 36:

(paleontology) Pertaining to the cladium.


-podium

From Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”) + -ium (“biological structure”).

af

(biology) Relating to or being a leg-like structure.


seawatching

From sea + watching, after birdwatching.

(birdwatching) A type of birdwatching where participants observe seabirds from a fixed point on the mainland.


privileged sanctuary

en-noun

privileged sanctuary (plural privileged sanctuaries)

They have a privileged sanctuary. I can remember in the early days in western Nebraska we used to go out in roundups and round up jackrabbits and run them into a corral and kill them with clubs, hundreds and thousands of them, because there were so many of them. Then a bug came along and most of them died off. The last few years, because of the privileged sanctuary, which is the focal point, they are coming back, actually thousands of jackrabbits.

1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Withdrawal and Utilization of the Public Lands of the United States, page 138:

(ecology) A refuge where certain species are granted a protected status and cannot be killed.


alsinaceous

en-adj

alsinaceous (comparative more alsinaceous, superlative most alsinaceous)

more alsinaceous (comparative)
most alsinaceous (superlative)

From Alsinaceae, from Alsine + -aceae, from Latin alsine (“chickweed”), + -ous.

According to the manner in which the petals of a polypetalous corolla are arranged, they have received different names, which are thus defined by Link: […] the alsinaceous has short distant ones; […]

1832, John Lindley, “Of the Compound Organs in Flowering Plants” (chapter II), in An Introduction to Botany, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, page 119:

(botany, historical) Of or pertaining to the Alsinaceae (Caryophyllaceae) family, especially chickweed.


European sting winkle

en-noun

European sting winkle (plural European sting winkles)

(zoology) Common name of Ocenebra erinaceus, a species of predatory sea snail in the family of Muricidae.


bryobia

Descriptions of these two new Bryobias are here given:

1921, H. E. Ewing, “New Nearctic Spider Mites of the Family Tetranychidae.”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 59, archived from the original on 2024-06-04, page 662:

All other known Bryobias hibernate in the egg stage.

1953, G. S. Roosje and J. B. M. van Dinther, “The genus Bryobia and the species Bryobia praetiosa Koch”, in Natuurtijdschriften, archived from the original on 2024-04-13, page 333:

Bryobias infest the leaves and unripe fruits.

2002, “Date Palm”, in Organic Farming in the Tropics and Subtropics, 1st edition, Naturland e.V., archived from the original on 2023-08-12, II Special section: Organic Date Palm Cultivation, page 9:

(arachnology, taxonomy) A spider mite of the genus Bryobia.


schistocerca

Borrowed from translingual Schistocerca.

All the other schistocercas, except for the desert locust, schistocerca gregaria, (responsible for biblical and modern day plagues in Africa) are found in the New World.

2006 October 12, vanessa cardui, “What better day than Columbus Day?”, in Am I Bugging You Yet?: Bug sightings in and around Tustin, California., archived from the original on 2023-11-23:

Schistocercas shouldn't be such fussy eaters. We give them dried oats and green cabbage but they should also be able to survive on grass, carrots, anything really.

2013 May 24, mister_moustachio, “We got our grasshoppers in today. I love how they go towards the light”, in r/Entomology, Reddit:

(entomology, taxonomy, rare) Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca.


prostatic acid phosphatase

prostatic acid phosphatase (usually uncountable, plural prostatic acid phosphatases)

(biochemistry, oncology) An enzyme produced by the prostate, which may be found in increased amounts in men who have prostate cancer or other diseases.


tristyly

(botany) The condition of being tristylous


DDTase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that can extract hydrogen chloride from DDT.


dehydrohalogenase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that can remove hydrogen halogenide from a molecule, usually meaning DDTase.


polyplocodont

(zoology) Having a highly folded inner boundary to the dentine of a tooth.


pseudaelurine

(paleontology) Any member of the Pseudaelurus genus of fossil cats.


pithecophobia

(biology) A distate for apes and monkeys, extending to discomfort with the notion that humans evolved from apes.


pithecism

(biology) A pithecoid aspect or characteristic present in a human.


glyptograpsid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Glyptograpsidae.


scutigerellid

(zoology) Any pseudocentipede in the family Scutigerellidae.


scolopendrellid

(zoology) Any in the family Scolopendrellidae of pseudocentipedes.


zygometrid

(zoology) Any echinoderm in the family Zygometridae.


questid

(zoology) Any annelid in the family Questidae.


lungless salamander

lungless salamander (plural lungless salamanders)

(herpetology) Any of numerous salamanders in the family Plethodontidae, who do not have lungs, and instead respirate through their skin and the lining of their mouths.


terebratellid

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the family Terebratellidae.


plagioeciid

(zoology) Any bryozoan in the family Plagioeciidae.


spadellid

(zoology) Any chaetognath in the family Spadellidae.


small animal

(veterinary medicine) A cat or dog, as opposed to large or exotic pets.


aphreatophyte

(biology) Any plant that does not require any ground water.

afreatofyt

plant that does not require ground water


arhynchobatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Arhynchobatid.


tripedaliid

(zoology) Any box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae.


coeloplanid

(zoology) Any comb jelly in the family Coeloplanidae.


asteronychid

(zoology) Any brittle star in the family Coeloplanidae.


barentsiid

(zoology) Any entoproct in the family Barentsiidae.


dasydytid

(zoology) Any gastrotrich in the family Coeloplanidae.


austrognathiid

(zoology) Any gnathostomulid in the family Austrognathiidae.


torquaratorid

(zoology) Any hemichordate in the family Torquaratoridae.


centroderid

(zoology) Any kinorhynch in the family Centroderidae.


bellyache weed

(botany, rare) A plant of the family Cucurbitaceae.


prasinodermophyte

(biology) Any of the organisms, of the phylum Prasinodermophyta.


trimerophyte

(biology) Any of the extinct vascular plants of the class Trimerophytopsida.


setaphyte

(biology) Any of the plants of the clade Setaphyta.


pilciloricid

(zoology) Any loriciferan in the family Pilciloricidae.


chaetodermatid

(zoology) Any mollusc in the family Chaetodermatidae.


plectid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Plectidae.


chordodid

(zoology) Any nematomorph in the family Chordodidae.


coliiform

(ornithology) Any member of the Coliiformes order of birds.


eukaryogenetic

(biology) Of or pertaining to eukaryogenesis, originated by eukaryogensis.


tubulanid

(zoology) Any nemertean in the family Tubulanidae.


dilepidid

(zoology) Any flatworm in the family Dilepididae.


acarnid

(zoology) Any sponge in the family Acarnidae.


flosculariid

(zoology) Any rotifer in the family Flosculariidae.


halechiniscid

(zoology) Any tardigrade in the family Halechiniscidae.


hofsteniid

(zoology) Any acoel in the family Hofsteniidae.


rasborin

(ichthyology) Any member of the Rasbora genus of fishes, or similar (Trigonostigma and Boraras).


bariliin

(ichthyology) Any member of an informal group of fishes including Barilius, Aspidoparia, Macrochirichthys, Oxygaster, Parachela, Raiamas, Salmostoma, Securicula.


esomin

(ichthyology) Any member of the Esominae subfamily of fishes.


demodecid

(zoology) Any member of the Demodecidae family of mites.


michelinocerid

Derived from Michelinocerida, which derives from the genus Michelinoceras, named by Foeste in 1932.

(paleontology) Any member of the Michelinocerida (also known as Orthocerida) order of cephalopods.


querciform

Either formed in English from Latin quercus (“oak”) + -iform, parallel to taxonomic Latin querciformis, or formed in (taxonomic) Latin and borrowed into English.

AGLAOMORPHIA, [...] Sori non-indusiate, rotundate, [...] Fronds coriaceous, dimorphous, the sterile sessile querciform, brown rigid; [...]

1857, Thomas Moore, Index Filicum: A Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, and an Enumeration of the Species of Ferns : with Synonymes, References:

DYNARIA. A genus of polypodiaceous ferns, generally distinguishable by the productino of two separate kinds of fronds: the one pinnate or pinnatifid in the usual way, [...] the other [...] lobed at the edge so as to resemble the leaf of an oak, whence they are called querciform. [...] its dwarfed querciform sterile fronds. [...] the fronds of this species being sessile and querciform at the base, [...]

1866, John Lindley, Thomas Moore, The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom ; with which is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms, page 431:

Dr . M. DEBEY has recently published a fine memoir on some querciform leaves found in the sand rocks of Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia.

1883, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, page 9:

Querciform leaves deeply dentate, lower surface and stems with scattered large 1 cm. spines.

(botany, now uncommon, especially of a frond) Resembling an oak: in particular, resembling the (lobed) leaf of an oak.


serodeconversion

serodeconversion (countable and uncountable, plural serodeconversions)

(biology, medicine) The reversion to seronegativity after seropositivity: the undoing of previous seroconversion (the process of this change or an instance of it), as a result either of recovery from illness or of loss of vaccination's effects.


MME

mass mortality event
mass mortality event#English

(biology) Initialism of mass mortality event.


TTN

(genetics) The gene that encodes for the protein titin.


endosiphuncle

(paleontology) An inner tube in a siphuncle.


karooid

(ecology) A southern African biotype from the Karoo.


proarticulate

(paleontology) Any member of the Proarticulata phylum of extinct animals.


juvenomimetic

16 plants were collected locally, of which 12 showed presence of juvenomimetic activity in the extract by the method employed for the study, whereas the remaining 4 did not give any positive indication of this activity in their extracts.

1975 October 15, V. K. K. Prabhu, M. John, “Juvenomimetic activity in some plants”, in Experientia, volume 31, →DOI, page 913:

(biology) Preventing metamorphosis in insects by imitating the effects of juvenile hormones.


transpalaearctic

trans- + palaearctic Used by P Sushkin in 1925

(zoology) Covering the palaearctic from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.


-grade

From Latin gradus (“step, degree”) and gradior (“walk”).

(zoology) Describes a specified way of walking or locomotion, especially according to the limbs or organs utilized.


barley scald

(botany, agriculture) A disease of barley caused by the fungus Rhynchosporium secalis.


barley smut

(botany, agriculture) A disease of barley caused by the fungus Ustilago nuda.

(botany, agriculture) A disease of barley caused by the fungus Ustilago hordei.


vetulicolian

(zoology) Any of the extinct marine animals of the phylum Vetulicolia.


vetulicolian

(zoology) Pertaining to the Vetulicolia.


gnathosomatic

(zoology) Of or pertaining to gnathosoma.


neostigmata

(zoology) Secondary tracheal openings in mites.


semi-palindrome

From the prefix "semi-" meaning "half" and "palindrome," indicating a partial or variant form of a palindrome.

(genetics) A sequence of DNA that can be superimposed with its reverse complement.


arenastatin

(organic chemistry, lichenology) One of a family of peptolides produced by cyanobacteria in lichens with IUPAC name (3S,10R,13Z,16S)-10-[(4-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-3-(2-methylpropyl)-16-[(1S)-1-[(2R,3R)-3-phenyloxiran-2-yl]ethyl]-1,4-dioxa-8,11-diazacyclohexadec-13-ene-2,5,9,12-tetrone.


oligohumic

(zoology) Feeding on soil 20-40 cm deep.


isidiiferous

en-adj

isidiiferous (comparative more isidiiferous, superlative most isidiiferous)

more isidiiferous (comparative)
most isidiiferous (superlative)
isidioferous (alternative)

Apothecia sessile or slightly elevated, mostly in the centre; disc at first concave, afterwards nearly plane, dark chestnut-coloured, surrounded by a naked or isidiiferous, indexed, thallodal margin; asci elongato-subventricose, 8 spored; spores elliptical, unilocular, hyaline; .002 in. long, by .00125 in. broad.

1861, William Mudd, A Manual of British Lichens, […], Darlington, Durham: Harrison Penney, page 99:

(lichenology) Bearing an isidium or isidia (a vegetative reproductive structure present in some lichens).


thallodal

thallodal (comparative more thallodal, superlative most thallodal)

more thallodal (comparative)
most thallodal (superlative)

(botany) Resembling or having the character of a thallus.


thallodic

thallodic (comparative more thallodic, superlative most thallodic)

more thallodic (comparative)
most thallodic (superlative)

The 'thallodic' margin of the apothecia which is characteristic of many genera and contains Algae (see Figs. 86, 87, 89) belongs, as the name rightly expresses, to the thallus and not to the apothecium.

1887, [Heinrich] A[nton] de Bary, chapter VII. Phenomena of Vegetation, in Henry E. F. Garnsey, transl., edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour, Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa and Bacteria, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, page 401:


multispined

Posterior tibiæ multispined; spines alternately long and short.

1872, F.V. Hayden, Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Μontana and Portions of Adjacent Territories Being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 437:

It is channeled through multispined copper fins which warm the air and release it into the air ducts of the house.

1946 December, “Trunk-Size Oil-Burning Furnace Heats Five-Room House”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 86, number 6, →ISSN, page 170:

Male red-sided garter snakes have a multispined hemipenis with a sizeable basal spine that is inserted into the female during the reproductive bout.

2024 May 15, Kevin Lee Teather, The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females, Oxford University Press, page 131:

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to a structure having multiple spines.


pretornal

Upper and under sides similar to those in ♂; the differs in the black markings which are broader, the red ocelli on the hind wing that are considerably larger, and in the obliquely placed pretornal short bar that is always centred with red.

1907, Lieut. Colonel CT Bingham, The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma., volume II Butterflies, London: Taylor and Francis, page 127:

In the male, the forewing is lighter and without the greyish clouding; the pretornal mark is reduced to a few fuscous scales or is sometimes completely absent.

1953, Bulletin of Entomological Research, volume 43, London: Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, pages 686-687:

(entomology) Close to the margin of an insect’s wing towards the posterior angle; near the tornus.


urogenital sinus

en-noun

urogenital sinus (plural urogenital sinuses)

(anatomy, zoology) An internal structure where the vagina and urethra open into in many female mammals.


Russian encephalitis

Russian encephalitis (plural not attested)

(virology) A type of viral encephalitis occurring in parts of Russia.


labia vulvae

(anatomy, zoology) The vulva's pair of thin lip-like structures that protect the urogenital sinus/vulval vestibule.


vulvar opening

(anatomy, zoology) Orifice between the labia vulvae where offspring and urine exit from; opening of the urogenital sinus.


caec-

(biology, medicine) Alternative form of caeco-


hedge witch

hedge witches (plural)
hedgewitch (alternative)

* (type of witch): Circa 1990s. From hedge (“boundary”) + witch, where the boundary is that separating this world from the spirit world, which is traversed during hedge riding. Possibly coined or popularised by Rae Beth (1990) Hedge Witch: A Guide to Solitary Witchcraft, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN.
* (fantasy): Circa 1980s. From hedge (“third-rate”) + witch. Compare hedge priest, hedge wizard.

1875, The Gardeners' Chronicle, New Series, Volume 4, page 725,
The common name of the fungus is, as you say, Hedge Witch or Wood Witch; the scientific name is Phallus impudicus.

(mycology) The fungus species Phallus impudicus, a type of stinkhorn.


spermaceti organ

spermaceti organ (plural spermaceti organs)

(zoology) An organ present in the heads of toothed whales of the family Physeteroidea, in particular the sperm whale.


wheldone

Coined by biochemists Sonja L. Knowles et al. in 2020, in honor of British motor racing driver Dan Wheldon.

coinage

(biochemistry) A fungal metabolite isolated from the coculture of Aspergillus fischeri and Xylaria flabelliformis, displaying cytotoxic activity against breast, melanoma, and ovarian cancer cell lines.


Russian spring–summer encephalitis

Russian spring-summer encephalitis (canonical)

tick-borne encephalitis
tick-borne encephalitis

(virology) A type of tick-borne encephalitis caused by Ixodes persulcatus.


allomark

en-verb

allomark (third-person singular simple present allomarks, present participle allomarking, simple past and past participle allomarked)

allomarks (present singular third-person)
allomarking (participle present)
allomarked (participle past)
allomarked (past)

[…] dholes, Cuon alpinus, may allomark from a handstand.

1985 August 15, Social Odours in Mammals: Volume II (Oxford Science Publications):

Cats allomark (mark each other) by rubbing the cheek and perioral regions against each other. The initiator of such a rubbing interaction may thereby deposit scent on the recipient (and/or pick it up).

1988, Turner, Dennis C., The Domestic Cat : the Biology of its Behaviour:

The frequency with which dwarf mongooses allomark before, during, and after estrus in the dominant female.

1989, Gittleman, John L, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution:

Two types of allomarking have been distinguished: sequential allomarking, whereby a badger marks the flank or rump of another individual, and mutual allomarking, in which both badgers press their subcaudal glands together (probably thereby swapping the bacterial communities that determine the nuances of their olfactory signature).

2005, Nowak, Ronald M, Walker's carnivores of the world:

(zoology) To scent mark onto the body of an individual of the same species.


ardipith

(anthropology, paleontology) Any of the hominids of the extinct genus Ardipithecus.


ardipith

en-adj

ardipith (comparative more ardipith, superlative most ardipith)

more ardipith (comparative)
most ardipith (superlative)

(anthropology, paleontology) Of or pertaining to the hominids of the extinct genus Ardipithecus.


-limnion

From Ancient Greek λιμνίον (limníon, “small pond”), from λίμνη (límnē, “lake, marsh”).

der

(limnology) A part of a stratified lake.


-mictic

From Ancient Greek μίξις (míxis, “mingling”). First used in holomictic.

(limnology) Refers to the manner in which a body of water stratifies.


neon skimmer

neon + skimmer (“type of dragonfly”), in reference to the species' vibrantly orange color.

(entomology) Libellula croceipennis, a New World species of bright orange dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.


dysgenesic

en-adj

dysgenesic (comparative more dysgenesic, superlative most dysgenesic)

more dysgenesic (comparative)
most dysgenesic (superlative)

(genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.


dysgenetics

(medicine, genetics) A theory linking the induction of persistent delayed genomic instability with disturbed cellular aging.


conicotine

(medicine, biochemistry) The metabolic product of nicotine that is detectable in serum, formed when nicotine decomposes in the liver.


hybrid monkey

(zoology, primatology) The offspring of two different species of monkeys.


yellow-green brushfinch

en-noun

yellow-green brushfinch (plural yellow-green brushfinches)

Calque of translingual Atlapetes luteoviridis.

calque

New World sparrow
New World sparrow#English

(ornithology) Any New World sparrow of the species Atlapetes luteoviridis, endemic to a thin stretch of inland Panama.


king quail

(ornithology) A bird of the species Synoicus chinensis.


animal cabinet

(zoology, sciences) A controlled environment designed for breeding animals, often used in biomedical research laboratories.


concatenation tree

en-noun

concatenation tree (plural concatenation trees)

Martin and colleagues recently reported a lack of correspondence between individual protein trees and the concatenation tree in several datasets of archaeal and bacterial proteins (Thiergart et al., 2014).

2016, Sonja-Verena Albers, Mecky Pohlschroder, Archaeal Cell Envelope and Surface Structures, page 42:

For example, in the analyses of the full CDS data, the coalescent tree supports a Neohymenopogon + Mouretia clade (Supplementary Figure 1), and the concatenation tree was inconclusive (i.e., support values were below 95%) for several relationships (Supplementary Figure 2) and inconsistent with the coalescent tree.

2023, Olle Thureborn, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Niklas Wikström, Catarina Rydin, “Target capture data resolve recalcitrant relationships in the coffee family (Rubioideae, Rubiaceae)”, in Stefan Wanke, Susann Wicke, editor, Phylogenomic Discordance in Plant Systematics, page 227:

Similarly, in the genome sequency analysis of C. salicifolius, Lv et al. (2020) constructed an amino acid sequence-based concatenation tree of 103 single-copy gene sets and coalescent tree of 1,420 low-copy gene sets from 17 species, all of which support that magnoliids are sister plants to eudicots.

2024, Yunpeng Cao, Hui Song, Muhammad Abdullah, Multi-omics and Computational Biology in Horticultural Plants, page 63:

(genetics) A phylogenetic tree constructed from concatenated alignments.


tree-maker

Alfred S. Romer, a paleontologist at Harvard, was one of the great tree makers of the midcentury, and his reached a broad audience of young scientists-in-training through his influential textbooks, most notably Vertebrate Paleontology.

2019, David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, page 186:

(biology, genetics, genealogy) One who makes or constructs a tree, i.e., a branching diagram or a family tree.


phylesis

(biology) A course of evolutionary or phylogenetic development which modifies an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species.


unextinction

unextinction (countable and uncountable, plural unextinctions)

From un- (reversive prefix) + extinction.

"Pteranodon party, their evolution cycle is up on Xirdneh, in celebration of their unextinction there's a savior-class carrier chartered, and with this coupon we can chose two Gaeapod clones of our preference to be sacrificed to the initial pteranodon brood!" […]

(biology) The process of bringing an extinct species back into existence.


phosphylation

phosphylation (countable and uncountable, plural phosphylations)

(biochemistry) a generic term for both phosphorylation by phosphate esters and phosphonylation by phosphonate or phosphinate esters.


iduna

Hundreds of warblers made the mass - mainly Blackcap and Lesser Whitethroat but also quite many Reed Warblers and an assortment of other sylvias, locustellas, idunas and phyllos, plus some other bits and pieces.

2012 April 14, Yoav Perlman, “Busy busy”, in Yoav Perlman (blog):

Most Idunas share a rather peculiar jizz.

2016 August 26, “Focus On: Booted Warbler”, in BirdGuides:

Booted Warblers are the more northerly breeders of the two sibling Idunas.

2019, Sudhir Vyas, Indian BIRDS, Indian BIRDS Monographs, Booted Warbler Iduna caligata Passage migrant (Fairly common), page 92:

(ornithology) Any warbler of the genus Iduna.


area of occupancy

area of occupancy (plural areas of occupany)

extent of occurrence
extent of occurrence

(biology) the area within its extent of occurrence which is occupied by a taxon.


extent of occurrence

extent of occurrence (plural extents of ocurrence)

(biology) the area contained within the shortest continuous imaginary boundary which can be drawn to encompass all the known, inferred or projected sites of present occurrence of a taxon.


prey drive

(zoology) The instinctive inclination of a carnivore to locate, pursue, and capture prey.


ray floret

(botany) A female or sterile floret within a capitulum whose main feature is a corolla formed of a single showy petal.


multi-omics

Multi-omics approaches based on the analysis of different body fluids and tissues with various profiling platforms promise to provide deeper insights into complex psychiatric disorders.

2008 March, E[manuel] Schwarz, S[abine] Bahn, “The utility of biomarker discovery approaches for the detection of disease mechanisms in psychiatric disorders”, in British Journal of Pharmacology, volume 154, number S1 (Special Issue: Life Sciences), →DOI, page S136:

(biology) An approach for biological analysis that applies multiple omics subfields in a concerted manner.


multi-omic

From multi- + omic or a back-formation of multi-omics.

(biology) Of or pertaining to multiple omics subfields; of or pertaining to multi-omics.


eccrinid

In 1957, we collected in the seaward intertidal zone [...] both mole and mud crabs infested with eccrinids.

1958 November 28, Eunice Thompson Cronin, T.W., Jr. Johnson, “A halophilic Enterobyrus in the mole crab Emerita talpoida Say”, in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, volume 74, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 167–172:

Species of Eccrinales, commonly referred to as eccrinids, are often found associated with terrestrial arthropods [...]

1989, James F. White, Jr., Thomas N. Taylor, “A Trichomycete-like fossil from the Triassic of Antarctica”, in Mycologia, volume 81, number 4, →DOI, pages 643–646:

(biology) a member of the order Eccrinales

The possible reasons for the distribution of eccrinids in the crab-like decapod crustaceans of the Barents Sea are discussed.

2018 November 28, “First finding of representatives of the Eccrinida order in the digestive tract of king crab specie from the Barents Sea”, in Doklady Biological Sciences, volume 483, number 2, →DOI, →PMID, pages 167–172:

The eccrinid Enteromyces callianassae Lichtwardt, 1961 has been found in the guts of various decapod crustacean species [...]

2022, Robert Perger, Jorge Cortés, Cristian Pacheco, “First reports of protists in land crabs of the family Gecarcinidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) suggest a relatively widespread phenomenon”, in Journal of Natural History, volume 56, numbers 1–4, →DOI, pages 149–156:

(biology) a member of the order Eccrinida


necto-

From Ancient Greek νηκτός (nēktós, “swimming”). Compare nekton.


homoeology

en-noun

homoeology (usually uncountable, plural homoeologies)

homoeologies (plural)
homeology (alternative)

By surface analysis, homoeo- + -logy = homoe- + -ology.

(biology) Similarity in genetic makeup, especially in hybrids involving homology in an ancestral form.


eco-neighborhood

eco-neighborhoods (plural)
eco-neighbourhood (alternative)

→ Portuguese: ecobairro (calque)

The Beddington eco-neighborhood was opened in 2002 on a former landfill site in Sutton, a residential borough of South London.

2021 March 24, 6 eco-neighbourhoods to discover in Europe:

(ecology) neighborhood designed and organized in order to reduce the environmental impact of its activity


tree cookie

Obtain tree cross-sections or “tree cookies” from a local tree-trimming service or other source, or make your own by sawing the trunk or limb of a fallen tree into sections 1–2 inch (4–5 cm) thick. To prevent them from splitting, dry the tree cookies either on a sunny driveway for five days or in a kitchen oven set to “warm” for five hours. Turn the cookies over periodically to dry both sides evenly.

2019, “Activity: Tree Cookies”, in Project Learning Tree, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, archived from the original on 2024-06-26:

When a cross section of a tree is taken it is often referred to as a "tree cookie" due to its shape. The first year of growth is at the center of the tree cookie, while the last year’s growth is where the wood meets the bark.

2020-06-16, Science World, ASTC Science World Society, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:

Tree cookies are cross sections of tree trunks that foresters and teachers use to illustrate how trees grow. Tree cookies reveal the many different layers that make up a tree.

2021 May 17, “Tree Cookies”, in Idahoforests.org, Idaho Forestry Products Commission, archived from the original on 2024-07-29:

(botany, forestry) A preserved horizontal cross-section of a tree trunk or limb, often demonstrating the physical structure and growth rings of the source plant.


low-growing

en-adj

low-growing (comparative lower-growing, superlative lowest-growing)

lower-growing (comparative)
lowest-growing (superlative)

(botany, horticulture) Of plants, that grow relatively close to the ground.


hemiamyloid

hemiamyloid (comparative more hemiamyloid, superlative most hemiamyloid)

more hemiamyloid (comparative)
most hemiamyloid (superlative)

Fuscopannaria and Moelleropsis share important characters like the hemiamyloid reaction of the hymenium and the amyloid tube structure of the ascus apex.

2002 June, Ekman, Stefan, Jørgensen, Per Magnus, “Towards a molecular phylogeny for the lichen family Pannariaceae (Lecanorales, Ascomycota)”, in Canadian Journal of Botany, volume 80, number 6, page 632:

(mycology) Describes an element of the cell wall that does not directly stain blue with iodine reagents added to a water preparation, but only when it has been pretreated with potassium hydroxide solution (KOH).


red-toothed

(zoology) Of an animal, having a reddish enamel at the tips of the teeth.


sharp-toothed

sharp-toothed (comparative sharper-toothed, superlative sharpest-toothed)

sharper-toothed (comparative)
sharpest-toothed (superlative)

(zoology) Of an animal, possessing sharp teeth.


drift fruit

Coordinate term: drift seed

(botany) A fruit adapted for long-distance dispersal by water.


ammonitologist

Arkell was a Jurassic ammonitologist with immense personal experience.

1984, Edward T. Tozer, The Trias and Its Ammonoids The Evolution of a Time Scale, page 23:

However, a clearly distinctive element is the ammonitella, which is now the focus of attention of many ammonitologists.

1996, Cyprian Kulick, “Ammonoid Shell Microstructure”, in Kazushige Tanabe, Neil H. Landman, Richard Arnold Davis, editors, Ammonoid Paleobiology, page 95:

René Hoffmann, an ammonitologist at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany who reviewed the study, called the fossil a “paleontological jackpot you have only once in a lifetime.”

2021 January 31, Sabrina Imbler, “This Ammonite Was Fossilized Outside Its Shell”, in The New York Times:

(paleontology) A paleobiologist or researcher specializing in the study of ammonites.


ammonitology

The elaborate resulting nomenclature (taxonomy) is admittedly cumbersome. Unfortunately this aspect of ammonitology turns many away from an exciting and fruitful field of research.

Ammonitology was a bastion of documentation during the heyday of recapitulation, and therefore became the great hunting ground for a claim about frequent paedomorphosis when fashions shifted.

1988, Stephen J. Gould, “The Uses of Heterochrony”, in Michael L. McKinney, editor, Heterochrony in Evolution: A Multidisciplinary Approach, page 9:

Since the early times of the Hungarian geology, a special attention was dedicated to the Jurassic biostratigraphy and ammonitology.

1996, A. C. Riccardi, editor, Advances in Jurassic Research, page 187:

(paleontology) The scientific study of ammonites.


dipteron

The next species of Diptera are two female specimens of Trichomyia, bred about the end of May, following which is a dipteron new to the British list, Brachycoma erratica, Mgn., of the family Tachinidæ, kindly identified with the other Diptera of our cherry stump, by Dr. Meade, of Bradford, who has fully described this new species on page 110 in the May number of The Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 1894.

1895, C. J. Watkins, “The Denizens of an Old Cherry Tree, With Notes of its Surroundings”, in The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, volume 14, page 9:

A larval dipteron which has been interpreted as a roundworm.

1905, Charles Wardell Stiles, Albert Hassall, The Determination of Generic Types and a List of Roundworm Genera, with Their Original and Type Species:

This gall was brought to me ten years ago. From my notes I gather it was probably made by a dipteron, but I failed to rear the flies.

1910 June, E. W. Swanton, “Notes on British Galls”, in Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science, volume 7, page 209:

(entomology) Any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera.


behavioral sink

en-noun

behavioral sink (plural behavioral sinks)

(zoology, ethology) A collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation.


kloedenellid

This is also done for Dizygopleura landesi Roth and Eukloedenella pontotocensis Lundin, new species, which illustrate domiciliar (kloedenellid) dimorphism.

1965, Robert F. Lundin, Bulletin - Issue 108, page 18:

The difference between the kloedenellids and the geisinids , as defined , is the development of an anterodorsal process in the former.

1978, Robert Vernon Kesling, Ruth B. Chilman, Ostracods of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation:

According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids, monotiopleurids and leperditellids.

1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188:

(paleontology) Any of a group of small, Paleozoic seed shrimps, noted for their distinct shell shapes.


green accounting

(accounting, ecology) A type of accounting that attempts to factor environmental costs into the financial results of operations.


ocular spark

(ichthyology) A type of ocular radiance, reflecting it into the visual field to illuminate the field of vision, for diurnal active photolocation.


pilosan

(zoology) Any member of the order Pilosa, an anteater or a sloth.


gender-binary

(biology, sociology) Synonym of binary (“having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female”)


diurnal active photolocation

diurnal active photolocation (uncountable)

Coordinate term: nocturnal active photolocation

(ichthyology) The use of daylight for phosphorescence, fluorescence, or reflection, which then illuminates the visual field.


caeoma

New Latin caeoma, from Ancient Greek καίειν (kaíein, “to burn”) + -ωμα (-ōma). Attested from 1832.

der

Although examples of both the caeoma and cup types of aecidia have been studied from this standpoint, the most clear and acceptable accounts have been given for the less complicated, superficial caeomas.

1875 July, F.D. Fromme, “The morphology and cytology of the aecidium cup”, in The Botanical Gazette, page 1:

(mycology) An aecium of some rust fungi that has no peridium or outer membrane.


nocturnal active photolocation

en-noun

nocturnal active photolocation (uncountable)

Coordinate term: diurnal active photolocation

(ichthyology) The use of nighttime light such as phosphorescence or fluorescence to navigate or locate objects at night.


passive photolocation

Coordinate term: active photolocation

(ichthyology) The use of standard vision in order to locate objects in the environment.


ill-thrift

(veterinary medicine) An animal's failure to thrive.


extrinsic protein

extrinsic protein (plural extrinsic proteins)

peripheral membrane protein
peripheral membrane protein#English

(biochemistry) Synonym of peripheral membrane protein


muta-

From mutation, itself from Latin mūtātiō, by analogy with other Graeco-Latin prefixes.

(genetics, linguistics) Relating to mutation.


asco-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Latin ascus via back-formation from Ascomycetes, which see.

classical compound
international scientific vocabulary


basal lamina

basal lamina (usually uncountable, plural basal laminae or basal laminas)

basal laminae (plural)
basal laminas (plural)

extracellular matrix
extracellular matrix

(biology, anatomy, medicine) The thin layer of extracellular matrix upon which epithelial cells reside.


sex characteristic

sex characteristic (plural sex characteristics)

primary sex characteristic

secondary sex characteristic

(biology) A physical trait of a sexually dimorphic organism that is specific to one sex.


homotypic synonym

homotypic synonym (plural homotypic synonyms)

Coordinate term: heterotypic synonym

(botany, taxonomy) A scientific name that is based on the same type of specimen as another name for the same taxon.


Pcr

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of phosphocreatine.


valid name

(zoology) The correct scientific name for a taxon, or group of organisms.


achilixiid

(zoology) Any hemipteran of the family Achilixiidae


udonellid

(zoology) Any flatworm of the family Udonellidae


blepharipodid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Blepharipodidae


immune cell

(cytology, immunology) A white blood cell that assists the body in fighting off infections and diseases.


corification

corification (countable and uncountable, plural corifications)

(biology) A post-mortem preservation phenomenon that causes a substantial delay in the decomposition process.


viral vector

(microbiology, virology) A modified virus designed to deliver genetic material into a cell.


hypogaeous

en-adj

hypogaeous (comparative more hypogaeous, superlative most hypogaeous)

more hypogaeous (comparative)
most hypogaeous (superlative)

(biology) Living or maturing underground; subterranean


supratympanal

supratympanal (comparative more supratympanal, superlative most supratympanal)

more supratympanal (comparative)
most supratympanal (superlative)

Upper parts brownish olive; a triangular dark spot on the crown of the head; a brown spot below the eye, and a brown band along and below the supratympanal fold.

1864, ALBERT C.L.G. GÜNTHER, THE REPTILES OF BRITISH INDIA., London: R.Y. SOCIETY, page 415:

In grasshoppers the auditory nerve, after entering the tibia, divides into two branches, one forming the supratympanal ganglion, the other descending into the tympanum and forming a ganglion known as Siebold’s organ.

1899, Jame Weir, Jr., The Dawn of Reason of Mental Traits in the Lower Animals, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 21:

The outer chamber contains the supratympanal organ together with leucocytes and adipose cells.

1977, O. W. Richards, R. G. Davies, Imms' General Textbook of Entomology, Tenth edition, Volume I: Structure, Physiology and Development, London: Chapman and Hall, page 133:

(anatomy, zootomy) Describes something situated over or above the tympanum, or tympanic cavity, of the ear.


emydine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Emydinae.


deirochelyine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Deirochelyinae.


geoemydine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Geoemydinae.


epistrophic

epistrophic (comparative more epistrophic, superlative most epistrophic)

more epistrophic (comparative)
most epistrophic (superlative)

The apostrophic or epistrophic arrangement is the result of complicated laws dependent on the action of light; very strong irritation of light causes the chlorophyll-grains to collect into one or two lumps, a phenomenon for which Schimper proposes the term systrophe.

1886, A. F. W. Schimper, “Chlorophyll-grains and Chromatophores”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 642:

The accompanying diagram shows all the information I have been able to collect regarding the plant's epistrophic interval.

1888, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Botany, page 356:

The epistropic interval varies in position and in extent in different species.

1897, Charles Benedict Davenport, Experimental Morphology - Part 1, page 190:

(botany) Pertaining to the arrangement of chlorophyll along the outer surface of a plant (in epistrophe), as opposed to an arrangement at right angles to the surface (in apostrophe).


limonium

(botany) Any plant of the genus Limonium.


wormworld

en-noun

wormworld (countable and uncountable, plural wormworlds)

(paleontology) An age that is dominated by worms.

(paleontology) A region that is dominated by worm-life.


sigmalike

This is at least defensible, for the twisting of the chela is in itself a structural feature that is sigmalike; that is, the twisted chela is intermediate, in respect to the shape of the spicular axis, between the sigma and the normal chela, although in other respects it is a perfectly differentiated chela.

1921, W.C. George and and H.V. Wilson, “Sponges of Beaufort (N.C.) Harbor and Vicinity”, in Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, volume 36, page 150:

They predicted that there should be other sigmalike factors that would select other classes of promoters in response to the cell's needs.

1976, E.W. Caspari (editor), Advances in Genetics, Volume 18, page 36:

agents which stimulate transcription suggest that sigmalike factors also exist for the eukaryotic polymerases.

2013, Harry Harris (editor), Advances in Human Genetics, page 291:

(cytology, molecular biology) Characteristic of a structure composed of sigma bonds.


diascia

(botany) Any plant of the genus Diascia.


lythrum

(botany) Any plant of the genus Lythrum.


antiaccelerator

(biochemistry) A substance having an antagonistic effect against an accelerator.


alternipetalous

(botany) Having the parts of the flower, e.g. stamens, alternate in position with the petals.


floral envelope

floral envelope (plural floral envelopes)


pseudostipular

(botany) Of or relating to a pseudostipule.


kettle trap

(botany) The kettle-like pitcher of any of the carnivorous pitcher plants, used to trap their prey.


pseudosite

(genetics) An incorrect binding site that resembles the desired one.


primordial cell

primordial cell (plural primordial cells)

(biology, cytology) In a vertebrate, a germline stem cell that develops into a gamete, such as a spermatozoon or an oocyte.


primordial element

primordial element (plural primordial elements)

(biology, chemistry) A chemical element that has existed in its current state since before the Earth was formed.


primordial sludge

(biology, chemistry) A mixture of organic molecules hypothesized to be the origin of life on Earth; primordial soup.


tuftedly

(botany) In a tufted manner; having tufts.


symphylly

(botany) The condition of being symphyllous.


perforation plate

perforation plate (plural perforation plates)

(botany) In a tracheary element, part of the cell wall that is perforated, present in vessel members but not in tracheid cells.


clavuncula

(botany) In the Apocynaceae, an enlarged, drum-shaped stigma whose sides and lower surface are the receptive zones.


stilt root

(botany) A descending root growing from the trunk above ground and sometimes featuring lenticels.


speirochory

(botany) The unintentional introduction of plants into an area by means of contaminated seed.


rotately

(botany) In a rotate or wheel-shaped manner.


consexual

en-adj

consexual (comparative more consexual, superlative most consexual)

more consexual (comparative)
most consexual (superlative)

If, in fact, in L. funebris there is no sex marker on the song elements themselves, then a young bird must be able to sex its tutor. The same is true if the individuals were predisposed to produce the total vocabulary of any population, or of both sexes in their own population, and then under experience had to suppress a sex-specific subset of that repertoire [7]. It seems unrealistic to assume the reverse, that a parent bird can sex by some hidden cues newly hatched sexually monomorphic offspring and direct its own vocabulary to consexual young only.

1996 December 1, W. Wickler, K. Lunau, “How Do East African Bush Shrikes Laniarius funebris Recognize Male and Female Tutors During Gender Dialect Development?”, in Naturwissenschaften, volume 83, →DOI, pages 579b–c:

Experimental Protocol. We could not test all 48 salamanders simultaneously, so we randomly assigned salamanders to consexual pairs for testing and subsequent statistical comparison. Within a pair, one salamander was randomly assigned to the snake-soiled water treatment and the other to the unsoiled water treatment.

2001 July 1, John C. Maerz, Nova L. Panebianco, Dale M. Madison, “Effects of Predator Chemical Cues and Behavioral Biorhythms on Foraging, Activity of Terrestrial Salamanders”, in Journal of Chemical Ecology, volume 27, →DOI, page 1335:

We examined male signaling in a consexual context in two types of experiments. In the MI experiment, males were exposed to their mirror images (only visual cues) and in the MM experiment, males were exposed to real size-matched male opponents. We found overall similar display rates (DE, PU, HN) for both consexual experiments, which confirms the earlier finding that Anolis lizards use visual rather than chemical signals during social interactions (Jenssen 1977; Fleishman 1992; Jenssen et al. 1995; Forster et al. 2005). We further observed that A. sagrei males increased their PU frequency, but not their DE and HN rate during staged consexual interactions.

2013 December 24, Tess Driessens, Beatrijs Vanhooydonck, Raoul Van Damme, “Deterring predators, daunting opponents or drawing partners? Signaling rates across diverse contexts in the lizard Anolis sagrei”, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, volume 68, →DOI, page 181a:

it has also been demonstrated that extracts from drone mandibular glands (DMG) or groups of live drones can attract other flying drones within apiaries (Lensky et al. 1985) and non-flying ambulating drones (Brandstaetter et al. 2014), suggesting an alternate chemically mediated mechanism for the formation and/or maintenance of DCAs and drone consexual attraction.

2017 December 6, Gabriel Villar, Megan D. Wolfson, Abraham Hefetz, Christina M. Grozinger, “Evaluating the Role of Drone-Produced Chemical Signals in Mediating Social Interactions in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)”, in Journal of Chemical Ecology, volume 44, →DOI, page 2a:

Trees are polygamodioecious: There are male, female, and consexual trees. […] The species (Garcinia indica) has a very complex sexual system. Rawat and Bhatnagar (2005) considered this species as gynodioecious, whereas Rajasekharan and Ganeshan (2002) described it as polygamodioecious. Progenies of kokum raised from seeds segregate in the ratio: 37 males: 55 females: 8 consexual (Thatte and Deodhar 2012). Furthermore, male flowers are either pure males or with a pistillode; female flowers are either pure female or with staminodes (Bhaskaran and Krishnan 2012).

2023 October 11, N. Mini Raj, H. C. Vikram, V. A. Muhammed Nissa, E. V. Nybe, “Garcinia”, in Handbook of Spices in India: 75 Years of Research and Development, Singapore: Springer, →DOI, page 3014:

(botany) Having both male and female reproductive structures in a single individual.


consexual

Group composition by sex was far more variable when tube density was low (0.5 tubes/ﬁsh) than when tube density was high (1 tube/ﬁsh) (Table 3). Males and females aﬃliated with consexuals at equal rates.

2002 January 7, K. Dunlap, L. Oliveri, “Retreat site selection and social organization in captive electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus”, in Journal of Comparative Physiology A, volume 188, →DOI, page 473a:

Brown males did not chase consexuals.

2003 December 1, Troy A Baird, Laurie J Vitt, Teresa D Baird, William E Cooper, Jr., Janalee P Caldwell, Valentín Pérez-Mellado, “Social behavior and sexual dimorphism in the Bonaire whiptail, Cnemidophorus murinus (Squamata: Teiidae): the role of sexual selection”, in Canadian Journal of Zoology, volume 81, number 11, →DOI:

(biology) An individual of the same sex.


podocarpium

The laminae of these bracts are reduced so that only very short leaf tips are present. Whereas the podocarpium of the mature cone of P. elongatus and P. latifolius is always fleshy […]

(botany) In certain members of the Podocarpaceae, a group of fleshy fused bracts beneath the female cone that swell to enclose the developing seeds and attract frugivores.


F2 hybrid

(genetics) A cross between two F1 hybrids.


apophyllous

Coordinate term: gamophyllous

(botany) Having the perianth or other segments free, not united.


uniflory

(botany) The quality of being uniflorous.


ovipary

(biology) The laying of eggs by an animal.


apocarp

(botany) A carpel of an apocarpous plant.


furcraea

(botany) Any plant of the genus Furcraea.


hypogyny

(botany) The property of being hypogynous.


monocycly

(biology) The quality of being monocyclic.


dicycly

(biology) The quality of being dicyclic.


feed on

en-verb

feed on (third-person singular simple present feeds on, present participle feeding on, simple past and past participle fed on)

feeds on (present singular third-person)
feeding on (participle present)
fed on (participle past)
fed on (past)

(literally, zoology) Of an animal, to take as food, to obtain regular nourishment.


blackaroon

en-noun

blackaroon (usually uncountable, plural blackaroons)

Next follows the small black Cherry called the Blackaroon, which are also a profitable commodity for the barrows.

1805, Sir Richard Phillips, Modern London, Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis, page 501:

Madock, White and Black Heart Cherries, Blackaroons, Kentish Cherries, and others, begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits.

1824, Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, The perennial calendar, page 328:

The chestnut was chestan (O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois.

1882, Francisque Michel, A Critical Inquiry Into the Scottish Language with the View of Illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland, page 61:

(botany, rare) A species of small dark cherries found in Northern England and Scotland.


epecophyte

(botany) A species that is largely confined to artificial habitats.


agriophyte

(botany) A species that has invaded native vegetation and can survive there without human intervention.


habitat loss

(ecology) Alteration of an environment so that a species or multiple species may no longer habitably live there.


purple sulfur bacterium

purple sulfur bacterium (plural purple sulfur bacteria)

(bacteriology) Any gammaproteobacterium of the order Chromatiales.


photoorientation

The term photoorientation is used here to include all types of movement which tend to bring living organisms into geometrical relation with light fields in which they find themselves.

1954 December, Harold F. Blum, “Photoorientation and the "Tropism Theory"”, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, volume 29, number 4, page 307:

Photoorientation of chloroplasts from profile to face position in Mougeotia can be controlled in two ways.

1991 August, Z. Lechowski, J. Bialczyk, “The Action Spectrum of Far-Red Light in Interaction with Orange Light on Orientation of Chloroplasts in Mougeotia”, in The New Phytologist, volume 118, number 4, page 521:

Orientation film is a key material in liquid crystal displays,and the technology of inducing liquid crystal molecularorientation through polyimide photoorientation film is widely studied.

2024 June, Ji Li, Zhifu Li, Jie Chen, Yongchao Zhao, Binbin He, Ting Zhao, Shuang Lu, Guozhong Wang, “P-187: Pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules induced by photo-aligned films of Polymerized 2-(methacrylic acid) ethyl 3,5-diaminobenzoic acid reaction monomer polyimide for PSVA technology”, in SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, volume 55, number 1:

(chemistry, biology) The process of aligning molecules or living organisms using light.


smooth-haired

en-adj

smooth-haired (comparative smoother-haired, superlative smoothest-haired)

smoother-haired (comparative)
smoothest-haired (superlative)


smoothbelly

(zoology) Used in the names of various organisms having a relatively smooth belly.


third spacing

(biology, medicine) The abnormal accumulation of fluid (watery liquid) into an extracellular and extravascular space or potential space (i.e., outside vessels and outside cells).


soft scale

en-noun

soft scale (countable and uncountable, plural soft scales)

(botany, entomology) Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.


endosymbiogenesis

endosymbiogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural endosymbiogeneses)

(biology) The origin of an endosymbiosis.


infloration

The flowers are complete; infloration a cyme, corymb or spike; calyx persistent[…]

(obsolete, botany) The arrangement of flowers on a plant; inflorescence.


plurivoltine

(biology) Having multiple broods or generations in a year.


plurivoltinism

(biology) The state of being plurivoltine.


trivoltinism

(biology) The state of being trivoltine.


arctoidean

(zoology) Of or relating to the infraorder Arctoidea.


SMase

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of sphingomyelinase.


urkaryote

(biology) A theoretical ancestor of eukaryotes.


honey tube

In order to empty the deepest honey tubes accessible to it, the bee stretches out all the moveable parts of its sucking apparatus (lora, cardines, laminae, maxillar palpi, and tongue) in the same manner as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the only difference that the two first joints of the labial palpi sheathe the tongue from beneath and that the laminae closely embrace the menutum and the basal part of the tongue from above.

1873 July 3, Hermann Muller, “On the Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects aned On the Reciprocal Adaptations of Both”, in Nature London: The International Weekly Journal of Science, page 189:

In the pansy one petal is modified for the same purpose, and in the columbine each of the five petals is a honey-tube.

1908, M. M. Penstone, A Cycle of Nature Study Suitable for Children Under Twelve, page 195:

In remarkable contrast to these species, with their exposed honey, is the genus Lonicera (the honeysuckle). Lonicera caprifolium has a honey tube no less than 30 mm. long, for the most part not above 1-2 mm. wide, and moreover a great part occupied by the style.

2023, John Lubbock, Nature Series on British Wild Flowers, page 109:

(botany) A modified petal that fills with nectar which is then collected by insects; nectary.

These are crowded upon the leaves, some with their beaks buried so deeply as to appear as if standing upon their heads, pumping up the sap, and swelling out their delicate bodies till they seem fit to burst: globules of the sweet secretion continually forming at the extremity of each honey-tube, steadily increasing and dropping; the busy ants running hither and thither, now approaching, and lapping the drops, now rushing with meancing air and open jaws at some eager wasp or fly, who, just arrived, desires to share the repast, and whose conscience would not upbraid him should he devour a few of the confectioners with their own sirup.

1867 July, Francis Gregory Sanborn, “Plant-Lice and Scale-Insects”, in American Journal of Horticulture and Florists' Companion, volume 2, page 86:

This combination of a small honey tube and a feeler in which there is a single sensory pit on the ter minal joint, is peculiar to this larva just from the egg; none of the later broods have it .

1900, John B. Smith, The Apple Plant Louse:

Fig 2. Dorsal outline of the posteriro region of abdomen showing honey-tube within which are small characcteristic bodies and a fine tube which resembles a trachea.

1908 January, C. F. Jackson, “Notes on the Aphididae”, in Ohio Naturalist, volume 8, number 3, page 249:


narrow-spectrum

(microbiology, pharmacology) Of an antibiotic, that is only able to kill or inhibit limited species of bacteria.


evolutionary genetics

(genetics) The study of evolutionary processes in an ecological context in order to account for phenotypic patterns observed in nature.


quantitative genetics

(genetics) The study of the genetic basis of continuously varying phenotypic traits in a population.


sharptooth

(zoology) Having sharp teeth; used in the names of various creatures.


untwitchable

en-adj

untwitchable (comparative more untwitchable, superlative most untwitchable)

more untwitchable (comparative)
most untwitchable (superlative)

(birdwatching, of a bird) Unable to be visited and viewed by birders.


macrobotany

Coordinate term: microbotany

(botany) The study of plant remains from archaeological sites that are large enough to be viewed with the naked eye or with a low-powered microscope.


microbotany

Coordinate term: macrobotany

(botany) The study of microscopic plant parts, or microbotanical remains, that can only be viewed with a high-powered microscope.


container plant

en-noun

container plant (plural container plants)

(botany, horticulture) A plant that grows in a pot or other container, instead of in the ground.


basitony

(botany) Predominant or exclusive development of buds at the base of a plant or branch.


kleptogamy

(zoology, ethology) copulation strategy by which males attempt to mate stealthily


accremental

en-adj

accremental (comparative more accremental, superlative most accremental)

more accremental (comparative)
most accremental (superlative)

From Latin accrēmentum (to increase or grow) + -al

There are moderately developed accremental striæ, which become ruder and rounder on the free tube.

1904 December [1904 August 2], Jos. C Verco, M.D., “Notes on South Australian Marine Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species, Part I.”, in Walter Howchin, editor, TRANSACTIONS of the ROYAL SOCIETY of SOUTH AUSTRALIA., volume XXVIII, page 143:

The factor mainly responsible for the crisis (an interruption in the gradual, accremental change when the extant institutions absorb new conditions, modifying in the process in a fashion not suddent enough to be perceived as revolutionary) in Western Europe which was to lead eventually to the articulation of class society was the demographic explosion of the eighteenth century.

1982, Zygmunt Bauman, Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals): The Pre-history and After-life of Class (International library of sociology), Routledge, page 4:

They are crossed by oblique crowded accremental striae, producing sublenticular pitting.

2024 June 30, Wikipedia contributors, “Callistele calliston”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

(biology) Related to growth or increase by successive additions, particularly in size or volume, often through the gradual deposition of material. This term is used to describe processes or structures that grow by accretion, such as the formation of shells, tree rings, or the buildup of biological tissues.


biomolecular condensate

en-noun

biomolecular condensate (plural biomolecular condensates)

Do you remember learning about cell diagrams in high school biology? The cell wall, the organelles, the nucleus. The real picture is turning out to be much more complicated, and interesting, than we were taught. Cells are filled with teensy, phase-shifting blobs that often contain protein and RNA, and in the past several years they’ve taken over cellular biology. In our cover story on page 22, science writer Philip Ball dives into the world of these specks, known as biomolecular condensates, which play astounding roles in cellular functioning across all domains of life.

2025 February 1, Jeanna Bryner, “In this issue: From the editor: Blobs and Green Monsters”, in Scientific American, page 4:

(biology, medicine) Any of a class of membraneless organelles and organelle subdomains that carry out specialized functions within a cell; many contain proteins and RNAs.


deuterostomy

(zoology) A process in embryology where the mouth forms subsequent to the anus.


pharyngotremy

pharyngo- + -tremy meaning holes in the pharynx

(zoology) The condition of an animal in which the pharynx is perforated by gill slits.


xenusian

(paleontology) Any lobopodian in the class †Xenusia.


hearing range

(audiology, otology, zoology) The frequency range that can be heard by humans or other animals.


China tea

Camellia sinensis
Camellia sinensis#Translingual

(botany, beverages) A tea made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, a variety of the tea plant that is mainly grown in southern China.


diatomyid

(zoology) Any member of the Diatomyidae family of rodents.


cinchonaceae

(botany) A family of flowering plants that includes the genus Cinchona.


geomyoid

(zoology) Any member of the Geomyoidea superfamily of rodents.


decarbamylation

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) The reversal of a carbamylation.


dictyoxide

(biochemistry) A diterpenoid derived from the brown alga Dictyota with IUPAC name 1R,2S,6R,10S)-3,7-dimethyl-10-(6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl)-11-oxatricyclo[5.3.1.0^(2,6)]undec-3-ene.


dictyol

(biochemistry) One of a set of alcohols containing a cyclohexane ring fused to a cyclopentane ring, found in Dictyota brown algae.


dictyotriol

(biochemistry) A dictyol with three hydroxy groups (triol), in particular dictyotriol A with IUPAC name (3aS,4R,5S,7R,8aR)-5-(3-hydroxy-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl)-3-methyl-8-methylidene-3a,4,5,6,7,8a-hexahydro-1H-azulene-4,7-diol


branchleted

en-adj

branchleted (comparative more branchleted, superlative most branchleted)

more branchleted (comparative)
most branchleted (superlative)


synallactid

(zoology) Any echinoderm in the family Synallactidae.


adenovirology

(virology) The scientific study of adenoviruses.


adenovirologist

(virology) A scientist who studies adenoviruses.


altingiaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the Altingiaceae.


subdigitigrade

(zoology) With paraxonic feet with slightly spreading digits.


carnivoraform

(zoology) Alternative form of carnivoramorphan


phomosis

(mycology, botany) A fungal plant disease caused by Phomopsis.


dumetorine

(biochemistry) An alkaloid from Dioscorea dumetorum with IUPAC name 4-methyl-2-[(1-methylpiperidin-2-yl)methyl]-2,3-dihydropyran-6-one


chiropterous

chiropterous (comparative more chiropterous, superlative most chiropterous)

more chiropterous (comparative)
most chiropterous (superlative)


nonaneuploidy

(genetics) The condition of being nonaneuploid.


selenophilia

(botany, chemistry) The quality of being selenophilic.


revertancy

(genetics) The condition of being revertant.


psychogenic alopecia

(zoology) A type of hair loss affecting domestic cats, caused by psychological stress.


pluviophilia

(biology) The quality of being pluviophilous.


heterotriplex

(biochemistry) A triplex DNA strand derived from different parent molecules.


Proavis

(paleontology) Any of various hypothetical extinct species or taxons that were coined in the early 20th century in an attempt to support and explain the hypothetical evolutionary steps and anatomical adaptations leading from non-avian theropod dinosaurs to birds.


spool-and-line

spool-and-line technique/tracking/method

spool-and-line device

(zoology) An unfurling spool of string, attached to an animal to visualize its movements.


photostage

(botany) A period of growth primarily driven by light.


polyHb

en-noun

polyHb (countable and uncountable, plural polyHbs)

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of polymerized hemoglobin


suoid

(taxonomy) A member of the clade Suoidea


suoid

en-adjective

suoid (comparative more suoid, superlative most suoid)

more suoid (comparative)
most suoid (superlative)

(taxonomy) Of or relating to the clade Suoidea


arminoid

(taxonomy) A member of the superfamily Arminoidea.


arminoid

(taxonomy) Of or relating to the superfamily Arminoidea.


doryctine

(taxonomy) A wasp in the subfamily Doryctinae.


doryctine

(taxonomy) Of or relating to the subfamily Doryctinae.


dryolestidan

(taxonomy) A mammal in the extinct order Dryolestida.


dryolestidan

(taxonomy) Of or relating to the order Dryolestida.


tergocentral

Tergocentral setae of IV (= 3rd apparent segment) less than 6 in number…

1967, J. Linsley Gressitt, editor, Entomology of Antarctica (Antarctic research series: Biological and life sciences), illustrated edition, volume 10, American Geophysical Union, page 164:

The chaetotaxy of the abdominal tergocentral setae does not include the postspiracular setae, except for tergite II where postspiracular setae, if present, can not be distinguished from the remaining setae.

2013 May 10, Michel P. Valim, Ricardo L. Palma, “Three new species of the genus Philopteroides Mey, 2004 (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae) from New Zealand”, in ZooKeys, number 297, page 73:

The tergocentral and postspiracular setae may be indistinguishable in species that have complete setal rows across the abdominal segments (e.g. Philopterus spp.; Figs 34–35), but are clearly identifiable in species with fewer setae (Fig. 37).

2018 4, Gustafsson, D.R., DiBlasi, E., Olsson, U., Najer, T., Sychra, O., Bush, S.E., “Checklist and key to the lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) of Sweden”, in Entomologisk Tidskrift, volume 139, number 4, page 219:

(entomology) Of setae: located centrally on the dorsal side of an insect's body segment.


tickover

(biochemistry) The minimal turn over rate of a chemical without additional stimulation.


microcarpous

en-adj

microcarpous (comparative more microcarpous, superlative most microcarpous)

more microcarpous (comparative)
most microcarpous (superlative)


myrmecophobic

a myrmecophobic plant


henodontid

(paleontology) Any of the family †Henodontidae of extinct placodonts.


petalonamid

(paleontology) Any extinct, archaic animal in the phylum †Petalonamae.


frondomorph

(paleontology) Any extinct, archaic animal in the phylum †Frondomorpha, also called †Petalonamae.


-zoite

(cytology) Forms names of infectious spores and their lifestages


betulase

From Latin betula (“birch tree”) + -ase.

(biochemistry) An enzyme that hydrolyzes the glucoside of methyl salicylate.