phosphomonoesterase

phosphomonoesterase (countable and uncountable, plural phosphomonoesterases)

phosphomonoesterases (plural)
phosphormonoesterase (alternative)

Dr. L. Shuster kindly furnished samples of prostatic acid phosphomonoesterase prepared according to the procedure of Markham and Smith.

1955, John B. Wolff, Nathan O. Kaplan, “d-Mannitol 1-Phosphate Dehydrogenase from Escherichia Coli”, in The Journal of General Physiology, page 850:

The venoms of snakes […] contain many enzymes, some of which, such as the proteases, phosphomonoesterase, phosphodiesterase, L–amino acid oxidase, 5-nucleotidase, cholinesterase, ribonuclease, desoxyribonuclease, ATPase, DNPase, and hyaluronidase are being used by the biochemist, pharmacologist, and physician.

1965, Findlay E. Russell, “Venomous Animals and Their Toxins”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30 1964, pages 479–80:

We first noted activation by high concentrations of ammonium sulfate […] when we attempted to purify cyclic adenosine monophosphatase (c-AMP-ase), phosphomonoesterase, and phosphodiesterase by the method of Robison.

1976, D. B. Gelman, D. K. Hayes, M. S. Schechter, “Ammonium Sulfate Activation of Phosphodiesterase in Homogenates of Larvae of the European Corn Borer”, in Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, volume 152, page 170:

(biochemistry) A phosphoric monoester hydrolase; an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of O-P bonds by nucleophilic attack of phosphorus by cysteine residues or coordinated metal ions.


phosphoketolase

(biochemistry) A particular aldehyde-lyase enzyme.


phosphomevalonic acid

(biochemistry) An intermediate in the mevalonate pathway.


phosphoenolpyruvate mutase

(biochemistry) A phosphotransferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction phosphoenolpyruvate ⇌ 3-phosphonopyruvate.


phosphomannomutase

(biochemistry) A phosphotransferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction alpha-D-mannose 1-phosphate ⇌ D-mannose 6-phosphate.


egression

The reason for this lies in the fact that a wide-shell-band, running along the margin of the egression, is superposed directly upon the shell of the preceding whorl.

1899, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, page 11:

According to Klinger and Kennedy (1989), the hoplitoidean Placenticeras kaffarium displays a rather strong umbilical egression, which gives it a scaphitoid adult morphology.

2015, Christian Klug, Dieter Korn, Kenneth De Baets, Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology, page 288:

Egression of the umbilical suture line on the last whorl of an adult and complete speciment is one morphologic feature which is unambiguous evidence of maturity in ammonites.

2012, Reinhart A. Gygi, Quantitative Geology of Late Jurassic Epicontinental Sediments in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland, page 66:

(paleobiology) The location of a feature on an ammonite fossil outward from the line of the shell's spiral.


floricomous

From Latin flos, floris (“flower”) + coma (“hair”) + -ous.

(zoology) Having a certain kind of ovipositor, characteristic of the Cnephasiini, consisting of papillae anales with a section of flat-headed setae.


pleurodont

(zoology) Having the teeth fused (ankylosed) by their sides to the inner surface of the jawbones

ránőtt fog

having teeth that are not inside alveoli/sockets &/or lack roots


pleurodont

(zoology) Any reptile with teeth of this kind.


scutibranchiate

(obsolete, zoology) Having the gills protected by a shield-like shell (said of gastropods in the former order Scutibranchiata)


scutibranchiate

(obsolete, zoology) One of the Scutibranchiata.


tendrilled

(botany) Having (a specified number or kind of) tendrils.


cruorin

en-noun

cruorin (usually uncountable, plural cruorins)


entozoal

(zoology, obsolete) Of or relating to the entozoa.


PHA

potentially hazardous asteroid
potentially hazardous asteroid#English

(astronomy, ecology, geology) Initialism of potentially hazardous asteroid.

(biochemistry) Initialism of phytohemagglutinin.


rheotropism

rheotropism (countable and uncountable, plural rheotropisms)

(biology) Movement stimulated by a current of water.


draculin

From Dracula + -in, named after Count Dracula.

(organic chemistry, zoology) A glycoprotein with anticoagulant properties, found in the saliva of vampire bats.


mosquito hawk

mosquito hawks (plural)
mosquitohawk (alternative)

(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Micromidia, endemic to eastern Australia.


macrodactylic

en-adj

macrodactylic (comparative more macrodactylic, superlative most macrodactylic)

more macrodactylic (comparative)
most macrodactylic (superlative)

From macro- + Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger”) + -ic.

der

A genus of Echastiert, or stilt-birds, belonging to Cuvier's macrodactylic or long-toed family.

1837, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history, volume 3, page 521:

The width of the macrodactylic digit cannot be reduced unless the redundant segment of the nerve is resected.

1974, H. Kelikian, Congenital deformities of the hand and forearm:

The digital nerves that supply the enlarged macrodactylic digits are usually enlarged.

1974, J. William Littler, Lester M. Cramer, James Walter Smith, Symposium on Reconstructive Hand Surgery:

(zoology, anatomy) Having long toes; macrodactylous.


chlorophane

en-noun

chlorophane (countable and uncountable, plural chlorophanes)

From chloro- + -phane. Compare French chlorophane.

(biology) The yellowish-green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina.


subnival

PIE word
 *upó
From sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + nival (“abounding with snow; snow-covered, snowy; found or thriving in snowy conditions”), borrowed from German subnival, from Late Latin subnivalis, from Latin sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + nivālis (“snow-covered; snowy”) (from nix (“snow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship)).

der

In this way, the ‘subnival’ mountain range on the southern facet with its strong solifluction influence (level slope formation) approaches in height the ‘nival’ mountain range on the northern facet, which is distinguished by its well developed glacial forms.

1969, Wendelin Klaer, “Glazialmorphologische Probleme in den Hochgebirgen Vorderasiens [Glacial Morphological Problems in the High Mountains of the Near East]”, in Erdkunde: Archive for Scientific Geography, volume XXIII, number 3, Bonn: University of Bonn, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, summary, page 193, column 1:

Of a habitat: of an altitude, latitude, or type just below that which would be permanently covered by snow (the snow line).

lumirajan alapuolinen

of a habitat: of an altitude, latitude, or type just below that which would be permanently covered by snow

Growing or capable of growing, or occurring, underneath snow; subnivean.

lumen alla kasvava

growing or capable of growing, or occurring, underneath snow — see also subnivian


sittine

From New Latin sitta (“the nuthatch”), from Ancient Greek σίττη (síttē, “nuthatch”) + -ine.

SITTINE BIRDS, OR NUTHATCHES. Birds of small size, having the body short and compact, […]

1846, William MacGillivray, British Ornithology, page 216:

(zoology, dated) Of or relating to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.


sigmodont

Ancient Greek σῖγμα (sîgma) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”). So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars.

(zoology) Any of the Sigmodontinae subfamily of rodents, including New World rats and mice.


galium

From the genus name, from Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).

(botany) Any of the genus Galium of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, including the bedstraws.


inoperculate

(zoology) Having no operculum; said of certain gastropod shells.


inoperculate

inoperculates (plural)
inopercular (alternative)

(zoology) Any organism that has no operculum.


pteropodid

(zoology) Any of the bat family Pteropodidae.


trioecious

triecious (alternative)
triœcious (alternative)
trioicous (alternative)

Fraxinus excelsior
Fraxinus excelsior#Translingual

(botany) Having male (staminate), female (pistillate), and bisexual flowers on the same plant (also known as "polygamous"), like Fraxinus excelsior

(obsolete, botany) Belonging to the former Linnaean order Trioecia, consisting of plants of this type.

(zoology) Having three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite, as some nematodes.


nymphaeaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Nymphaeaceae of water lilies.


fringillid

(zoology) Any of the Fringillidae; a finch.


semispecies

(taxonomy) One of the species in a superspecies.


staphylinid

(zoology) Any of the beetle family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles.


ectodermic

(biology) Of or relating to the ectoderm.


cyclophyllid

(zoology) Any tapeworm in the order Cyclophyllidea.


entomic

en-adj

entomic (comparative more entomic, superlative most entomic)

more entomic (comparative)
most entomic (superlative)
entomical (alternative)

From Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon, “insect”) + -ic.

uder

(zoology) Relating to insects; entomological.


big six

(ecology) The six elements most used by life: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.


mannoprotein

(biochemistry) Any glycoprotein based on mannose.


entaxonic

From ento- + Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”) + -ic.

af

(anatomy, zoology) Having the inner digits (e.g. thumb, big toe) more strongly developed than the outer ones


arabinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arabinans

arabinase

any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of arabinans


biofactory

(informal, biochemistry) Any system that produces (commercially) useful amounts of biologically-active compounds


dysexpression

(genetics) faulty expression (of a protein)


grifonin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of peptides, derived from the protein griffithsin, that has antiviral properties


hemibiotroph

(biology) An organism that is parasitic in living tissue for some time and then continues to live in dead tissue


holothuroid

(zoology) A sea cucumber (of class Holothuroidea)


hydroxyprostaglandin

(biochemistry) Any of several hydroxy derivatives of prostaglandin that are smooth muscle relaxants


isoelectrofocusing

isoelectric focusing
isoelectric focusing


isoelectric focusing

(biochemistry) The electrophoresis of proteins through a pH gradient to locations corresponding to their isoelectric points


macromelanophore

(cytology) A relatively large melanophore (up to 300–500 µm)


micromelanophore

(cytology) A relatively small melanophore (up to 100 µm)


megadiverse

/ˌmɛɡədaɪˈvɜːs/

/ˌmɛɡədaɪˈvɝs/

From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) + diverse, possibly modelled after biodiverse.

prefix

High rates of conversion [of natural habitats to agriculture] have clear implications for biodiversity loss. Of special concern are rates of conversion in the so-called megadiverse states: areas identified as being of high species endemism.

1994, David Pearce, Dominic Moran, “Saving Biodiversity: An Overview of the Causal Factors”, in The Economic Value of Biodiversity, London: Earthscan Publications, published 1997, →ISBN, page 19:

Mexico is one of the 12 megadiverse countries. While 1.3% of the land in the world, it hosts about 12% of the known terrestrial biota with very high endemicity.

2003, “Nature and Biodiversity Management”, in OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Mexico, Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, →ISBN, box 5.2 (A Megadiverse Country), page 105:

[…] Australia is the only developed nation, with the exception of Mexico, among the dozen or so regions which have been recognized as ‘megadiverse’, that is, having extensive total biodiversity.

2004, Natalie P. Stoianoff, Tom Fox, “Managing Access to Australia’s Biological Resources – Issues in Developing a National Approach”, in Natalie P. Stoianoff, editor, Accessing Biological Resources: Complying with the Convention on Biological Diversity (International Environmental Law and Policy Series), The Hague, London: Kluwer Law International, →ISBN, page 93:

Pioneering global cross-mappings of the distributions of biodiversity and linguistic diversity (taken as a proxy for cultural diversity as a whole) provided independent support for this conclusion, revealing significant geographic overlaps between the two diversities, especially in the tropics, and a strong coincidence between biologically and linguistically megadiverse countries[…].

2007, Luisa Maffi, “Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability”, in Jules Pretty et al., editors, The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society, London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 268, column 2:

In megadiverse regions such as the Andes-Amazon, managing these matters and developing wise programs for conserving natural resources is a huge undertaking, requiring the efforts of an array of individuals with widely diverse expertise.

2010, Fernando Cornejo, John Janovec, “Introduction”, in Seeds of Amazonian Plants (Princeton Field Guides), Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page xv, column 1:

This method is applied to the case of New Caledonia, a megadiverse island with all locations equally rich in microendemic species and where phylogenetic diversity is especially helpful to determine conservation priorities among sites.

2016, Roseli Pellens, Philippe Grandcolas, “Phylogenetics and Conservation Biology: Drawing a Path into the Diversity of Life”, in Roseli Pellens, Philippe Grandcolas, editors, Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics: Preserving Our Evolutionary Heritage in an Extinction Crisis (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation; 14), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 9:

South Africa, covering only 0.8% of the earth's terrestrial area, is one of the planet's 18 "megadiverse countries", defined by Conservation International as nations that harbour the majority of Earth's species and high numbers of endemic species.

2020, Brian W. van Wilgen, John Measey, David M[ark] Richardson, John R. Wilson, Tsungai A. Zengeya, “Biological Invasions in South Africa: An Overview”, in Brian W. van Wilgen et al., editors, Biological Invasions in South Africa (Invading Nature – Springer Series in Invasion Ecology; 14), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, section 1.1.1 (A Rich and Varied Biodiversity), page 4:

Countries from the global south, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – mega-diverse countries home to the world’s three largest rainforests – wanted governments to agree to the creation of a new biodiversity fund as part of the Montreal pact to pay for new conservation targets.

2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly ecology) Exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity.

megadiversos

exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity


metabolosome

The sequential metabolic reactions are envisaged as taking place on an RNA organizing structure, which we term a 'metabolosome'.

1990, Angus I. Lamond, “Catalytic RNA and the origin of genetic systems”, in Trends in Genetics, volume 6, page 145:

(biology) A polyhedral organelle, in some bacteria, that has a shell of protein and contains a collection of enzymes associated with a specific metabolic process.


misrepair

en-noun

misrepair (countable and uncountable, plural misrepairs)

/mɪsɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/

It is clear that "misrepair" can occur by mechanisms which are not the same for all types of damage.

2012, Peter Cerutti, Anticarcinogenesis and Radiation Protection, page 325:

Lesions for which repair or misrepair systems exist will have increased probabilities of repair or misrepair as the time between lesion formation and DNA replication increases.

2013, A. D. Woodhead, Assessment of Risk from Low-Level Exposure to Radiation and Chemicals, page 178:

This suggests that the probability of misrepair increases with increasing dose.

2013, Oddvar F. Nygaard, Warren K. Sinclair, John T. Lett, Effects of Low Dose and Low Dose Rate Radiation, page 128:

Wang et al. suggest that ageing is the result of the accumulation of “misrepair.”

2017, P.K. Ray, Ageing a boon or a bane: Issues, Concerns and Remedies:

A repair that was done badly or wrongly.

(genetics) A faulty repair of DNA that produces genetic mutation.


multiread

(genetics, genetic mapping) A read (sequence) that maps to multiple locations


mycolate

From mycolic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

(biochemistry) Any salt or ester of a mycolic acid.


irideous

en-adj

irideous (comparative more irideous, superlative most irideous)

more irideous (comparative)
most irideous (superlative)

(botany) Of or pertaining to the irises (of family Iridaceae).


mycosporine

(biochemistry) Any of many complex amino acids, having a central cyclohexene ring, that protect organisms from ultraviolet light


sterculiaceous

From translingual Sterculia + -aceous, the typical genus, from Latin Sterculius (“the deity that presided over manuring”), from stercus (“dung”). So called because one of the original species has a foetid smell.

der

(botany) Of or relating to the family Sterculiaceae (a former name for Malvaceae) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical, including the cocoa plant.


submentum

(zoology) The basal part of the labium of insects, which bears the mentum.


pathosystem

(biology) An ecosystem based on parasitism


phosphoglucosamine

(biochemistry) Either of two isomeric glucosamine phosphates


phosphoribulokinase

(biochemistry) A phosphotransferase that acts on ribulose phosphate


plastidic

(biology) Pertaining to, or composed of plastids


renalase

(biochemistry) An enzyme, released by the kidney, that breaks down adrenaline and related compounds


sedolisin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of peptidases that hydrolyze serine derivatives.


xiphophorine

Melanophore differentiation in the xiphophorine fish starts at the fourth day of embryonic life[…]

1977, The Yale journal of biology and medicine: Volume 50:

(zoology) Pertaining to fish of the genus Xiphophorus


glycolipidomics

From glycolipidome + -ics or glyco- + lipidomics.

(biochemistry) The study of the glycolipidome of an organism or cell


glycolipidome

(biochemistry) The set of all glycolipids in a cell or organism


hemicellulase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of hemicellulose


bicephalism

(zoology) The condition of having two heads.


arillus

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin arillus. Doublet of aril, the adapted borrowing which has largely superseded it.


echinochrome

en-noun

echinochrome (countable and uncountable, plural echinochromes)

(biochemistry) A usually red biochrome found in echinoids.


bicallose

(botany) Having two callosities or hard spots


lipooligosaccharide

(biochemistry) Any of a large class of lipids conjugated with oligosaccharides.


macrolipophagy

(biology) macroautophagy of lipid-containing tissue


myriocin

(biochemistry) A lipid-like amino acid that has antibiotic activity


neurolipidomics

(biochemistry, medicine) The application of lipidomics to the study of neurodegenerative disease


prenylome

(biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of prenylated compounds associated with a particular genome.


protectin

(biochemistry) A membrane-bound protein that prevents lysis by complement


quormone

(biochemistry) Any of a class of cyclic peptides active in quorum sensing.


raftophilic

en-adj

raftophilic (comparative more raftophilic, superlative most raftophilic)

more raftophilic (comparative)
most raftophilic (superlative)

(biology) Associated with a raft domain of a membrane


sphingolipidomics

In fact, the methods of sphingolipidomics also facilitate the determination of isotype specific effects, such as the induction of mitochondrial apoptosis exclusively by C16:0 ceramide. […] Sphingolipidomics will provide thrill information on the source and the 'job history' of a unique metabolite by comparative analysis of the levels of its de novo precursors versus its degradation products.

2007, Jean-Louis Vincent, Intensive Care Medicine: Annual Update 2007, page 262:

(biochemistry) The study of the sphingolipidome of an organism or cell


sphingolipidome

(biochemistry) The set of all sphingolipids in a cell or organism


steroidomics

(biochemistry) The study of the steroidome of an organism or cell


steroidome

(biochemistry) The set of all steroids in a cell or organism.


sterolome

(biochemistry) The set of all sterols in a cell or organism.


topogenesis

(biochemistry) morphogenesis of protein tertiary structure


lamiaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Lamiaceae of mint and its close relatives.


sminthurid

(zoology) Any of the family Sminthuridae of springtails.


sphaerospore

Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră, “ball”) + English spore.

(botany) One of the non-sexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.


seroprotein

(biochemistry) Any protein found in blood serum


GEF

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s negotiator appeared to block the final deal presented by China, telling the plenary that he could not support the agreement in its current form because it did not create a new fund for biodiversity, separate to the existing UN fund, the global environment facility (GEF). China, Brazil, Indonesia, India and Mexico are the largest recipients of GEF funding, and some African states wanted more money for conservation as part of the final deal.

Global Environment Facility
w:Global Environment Facility

(ecology) Initialism of Global Environment Facility.


crotaline

crotaline (comparative more crotaline, superlative most crotaline)

more crotaline (comparative)
most crotaline (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling, or relating to, the Crotalinae, or rattlesnake subfamily


incubously

[…] such as in the Lepidoziaceae (with primarily incubously inserted leaves […]

1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 481:

(botany) In an orientation such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.


succubously

[…] and the Trichocoleaceae (with predominantly succubously inserted leaves but Eotrichocolea with the leaves incubous; […]

(botany) In an orientation such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) parts of younger ones.


saxicava

en-noun

saxicava (plural saxicavas or saxicavae)

(zoology) Any of the marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava.


scaraboid

en-adj

scaraboid (comparative more scaraboid, superlative most scaraboid)

more scaraboid (comparative)
most scaraboid (superlative)

(coleopterology, entomology) Of or pertaining to the family Scarabaeidae, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbledung, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.


scaraboid

(coleopterology, entomology) Any scaraboid beetle.


obtected

obtected (comparative more obtected, superlative most obtected)

more obtected (comparative)
most obtected (superlative)

From Latin obtectus, past participle of obtegere (“to cover over”).

(zoology) Covered with a hard chitinous case, like the pupa of certain files.


nectosac

(zoology, rare, chiefly in the plural) The cavity of a nectocalyx.


labrid

(zoology) Any of the family Labridae of marine fishes.


odacid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Odacidae of perciform fishes


scarid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Scaridae; parrotfishes.


aplodactylid

(zoology) Any marblefish in the family Aplodactylidae.


tapoa tafa

brush-tailed phascogale
brush-tailed phascogale

(zoology, obsolete) A small carnivorous marsupial, the brush-tailed phascogale.


stromb

(zoology) Any marine univalve mollusk of Strombus and allied genera.


tracheary

(zoology, archaic) Any of the Trachearia, an former division of arachnids that breathe through their trachea.


campanularian

(zoology) Of or relating to the hydroid family Campanularidae.


campanularid

(zoology)Alternative spelling of campanulariid.


clionid

(zoology) Any member of the family Clionidae of sea angels.

(zoology, proscribed or dated) Any member of the family Clionaidae of sponges.


mactrid

(zoology) Any of the family Mactridae of saltwater clams.


anencephalous

From Ancient Greek ἀνεγκέφαλος (anenképhalos, “brainless”), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “brain”).

der

Similar loops were observed by the same anatomist in the cranial nerves of an anencephalous fœtus which had been preserved in spirits

1857, Robert Bentley Todd, The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man:


xenogamous

(botany) Exhibiting or relating to xenogamy.


astomatous

(biology) Without apertures, pores, or stomata.


promoterless

(genetics) Without a promoter (type of DNA section).


sedecimarticulate

Mycetophila. Meig. Antennæ porrect, cylindrical, sedecimarticulate.

1856, William Clark, transl., Handbook of Zoology, volume 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, translation of original by Jan van der Hoeven, page 342:


duodecimarticulate

Cordila. Meig., Latr. Antennæ duodecimarticulate, compressed, clavate.


quadriarticulate

Palps incurved, quadriarticulate.


undecimarticulate

Antennæ undecimarticulate, perfoliate.

1856, William Clark, transl., Handbook of Zoology, volume 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, translation of original by Jan van der Hoeven, page 341:


epixylous

Some moulds prefer to live on bread, but others are epixylous.

(mycology) Relating to, growing on, or living on the surface of wood.


inequivalvular

en-adj

inequivalvular (comparative more inequivalvular, superlative most inequivalvular)

more inequivalvular (comparative)
most inequivalvular (superlative)

(zoology) Having unequal valves; inequivalve.


agminate

agminate (comparative more agminate, superlative most agminate)

more agminate (comparative)
most agminate (superlative)
agminated (alternative)

Borrowed from New Latin agminātus, from the Classical Latin agmen (“a troop”, oblique stem: agmin-) + -ātus (“-ate”). Compare the Latin agminātim (“in hosts”, “in hordes”, adverb).

suffix

oblique stem: <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">agmin-</i>

cog

the agminate glands of Peyer in the small intestine


extraaxillary

an extraaxillary bud


pin-eyed

(botany) Having the stigma visible at the throat of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube.


pectous

pectous modification

pectous substances

(archaic, biochemistry) Of, relating to, or consisting of, pectose.


cytode

Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “hollow vessel”). Proposed by Ernst Haeckel.

uder

(biology) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life, differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present


loculose

en-adj

loculose (comparative more loculose, superlative most loculose)

more loculose (comparative)
most loculose (superlative)
loculous (alternative)

From Latin loculosus. See loculament and locule.

The pith of the pokeweed is loculose.

(botany) Divided by locules (internal partitions inside cells).


lepidote

lepidote (comparative more lepidote, superlative most lepidote)

more lepidote (comparative)
most lepidote (superlative)

From New Latin lepidōtus (“covered with scales”), from Ancient Greek λεπιδωτός (lepidōtós, “covered with scales”), from λεπίς (lepís, “scale, flake, shell, husk”). By surface analysis, lepido- + -ote.

der

The leaves of the oleaster are lepidote.


lepidote

Oleaster is a lepidote.

(botany) A lepidote plant, any plant with a coat of scurfy scales.


endodermic

(biology) Of or relating to the endoderm; endodermal.

endodermique

of or relating to the endoderm; endodermal


I-sites

en-noun

I-sites pl (normally plural, singular I-site)

(biochemistry) A protein folding initiation site motif consisting of an amino acid sequence pattern and a local structure type.


microbial fuel cell

microbial fuel cell (plural microbial fuel cells)

(biology) A bio-electrochemical system that drives a current by mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature.


biological fuel cell

biological fuel cell (plural biological fuel cells)

microbial fuel cell
microbial fuel cell#English

(biology) Synonym of microbial fuel cell.


marsupialian

(archaic, zoology) Any of the Marsupialia; a marsupial.


sparassodont

(zoology) Any of the Sparassodonta, an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America.


gynandrian

(botany) gynandrous; belonging to the obsolete class Gynandria.


procoelous

From pro- (“in front of”) + -coelous (“concave”).

confix

(obsolete, zoology) Of or relating to the procoelians.


hastated

en-adj

hastated (comparative more hastated, superlative most hastated)

more hastated (comparative)
most hastated (superlative)


lymantriid

(zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.


exorhizal

(botany) Having a radicle that is not enclosed by the cotyledons or plumule, i.e. of or relating to an exorhiza.


homotaxial

homotaxial (comparative more homotaxial, superlative most homotaxial)

more homotaxial (comparative)
most homotaxial (superlative)
homotaxic (alternative)


artocarpeous

artocarpeous (comparative more artocarpeous, superlative most artocarpeous)

more artocarpeous (comparative)
most artocarpeous (superlative)

(archaic, botany) Of or relating to the breadfruit, or the genus Artocarpus.


myxopod

Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, slime”) + -pod.

uder

(zoology, obsolete) A rhizopod or moneran.


heteromorphy

en-noun

heteromorphy (countable and uncountable, plural heteromorphies)

(biology) The state or quality of being heteromorphic; heteromorphism.


apotome

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Apotome
Euclid's Elements
Pythagoreanism#Music

Borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποτομή (apotomḗ, “cutting off”). The musical sense originates from the Pythagorean tradition. The mathematical sense is attested in Euclid's Elements (Book X, proposition 73, et seq.).

bor

The bands pass inside the margins of the apotome as they approach its constriction and form two pigmented areas broadly based on the frontal sutures and becoming dispersed towards the mid-line.

1964, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Zoological Society of London, page 287:

In generalized Diplura, Archaeognatha and some Thysanura, five parts or apotomes are distinguished, which from the anterior to the posterior part are: the presternum, the basisternum, the furcasternum, the spinasternum and the poststernum.

2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, →ISBN, page 3766:

(zoology) A distinct division of an insect which is divided from the other divisions by a pinch point.


peltately

en-adv

peltately (comparative more peltately, superlative most peltately)

more peltately (comparative)
most peltately (superlative)

peltately dilated at the base


endorhizal

(botany) Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.


elodeid

From translingual Elodea, from Ancient Greek ἑλώδης (helṓdēs, “marshy”), from ἕλος (hélos, “marsh”)

der

(botany) A stem plant that completes its entire life cycle submerged, or with only its flowers above the waterline.


isoetid

(botany) A rosette plant that completes its entire life cycle submerged.

pohjaruusukekasvi

rosette plant that completes its entire life submerged


regma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα (rhêgma, “breaking, fracture”). Doublet of rhegma.

bor+

A red dye is obtained from the regmata of Mallotus philippinensis, and Chrozophora tinctoria yields purple and blue dyes.

1988, The Marshall Cavendish illustrated encyclopedia of plants and earth sciences, Marshall Cavendish Corporation:

(botany) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each of which eventually breaks open at the inner angle.


nymphaeid

From translingual Nymphaea (“waterlily”).

(botany) A plant rooted in the bottom, but with leaves floating on the water surface.


suicide tree

(botany) Cerbera odollam, a tree native to India and other parts of Southern Asia, yielding a potent poison.


didelphian

en-adj

didelphian (comparative more didelphian, superlative most didelphian)

more didelphian (comparative)
most didelphian (superlative)

(zoology, archaic) Of or relating to Marsupialia (syns. Metatheria, Didelphia).


fissipedal

fissipedal (comparative more fissipedal, superlative most fissipedal)

more fissipedal (comparative)
most fissipedal (superlative)

From Latin fissus (“split”) + pedis (“foot”).

(zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.


chorisis

en-noun

chorisis (countable and uncountable, plural chorises)

From Ancient Greek χώρισις (khṓrisis, “separation”).

uder

(botany) The separation of a leaf (or petal or sepal) into two more parts


gressorial

en-adj

gressorial (comparative more gressorial, superlative most gressorial)

more gressorial (comparative)
most gressorial (superlative)

From Latin gressōrius + -al, from gressus (“walked”).

[…] 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.

[…] 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 […]

1965, Entomological Revue, American Institute of Biological Sciences:

(zoology) Adapted for walking, rather than being adapted for say, swimming, as in seals, or digging, as in moles; ambulatorial.


scrobiculate

scrobiculate (comparative more scrobiculate, superlative most scrobiculate)

more scrobiculate (comparative)
most scrobiculate (superlative)
scrobiculated (alternative)

From Latin scrobicula /scrobiculus + -ate, diminutive of scrobis (“a ditch or trench”).

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.

1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2:

(botany) Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.


homophyly

en-noun

homophyly (usually uncountable, plural homophylies)

homo- + Ancient Greek φυλή (phulḗ, “clan”) + -y.

The concept of homophyly suggests that people who share similar backgrounds are more likely to feel comfortable with each other

1997, Alfred Kadushin, Goldie Kadushin, The Social Work Interview: Fourth Edition:

(biology, archaic) That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.


lunulate

en-adj

lunulate (comparative more lunulate, superlative most lunulate)

more lunulate (comparative)
most lunulate (superlative)
lunulated (alternative)

(botany, zoology) Resembling a small crescent


pooid

(botany) Any of the grass subfamily Pooideae.


vexillar

vexillar (comparative more vexillar, superlative most vexillar)

more vexillar (comparative)
most vexillar (superlative)
vexillary (alternative)

Compare French vexillaire, Latin vexillarius, a standard-bearer.

the vexillar side

vexillar stamen

the vexillar side

(botany) Of or relating to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.


plectognathic

plectognathic (comparative more plectognathic, superlative most plectognathic)

more plectognathic (comparative)
most plectognathic (superlative)
plectognathous (alternative)

(zoology) Of or relating to the plectognaths.


passeroid

(zoology) Any of the birds in the superfamily Passeroidea.


involucrate

involucrate (comparative more involucrate, superlative most involucrate)

more involucrate (comparative)
most involucrate (superlative)
involucrated (alternative)

involucrate clovers

(botany) Having an involucre; involucred.


phyton

From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”).

(botany) 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.


methylenetetrahydrofolate

/ˌmɛ.θɪ.liːnˌtɛ.tɹəˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈfəʊ.leɪt/

(biochemistry) The substrate used by the enzyme methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase to generate 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (levomefolic acid).


levomefolic acid

(biochemistry) The natural, active form of folic acid used at the cellular level for DNA reproduction, the cysteine cycle, the regulation of homocysteine, etc.


androecious

From andro- + -ecious, from Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr, “male”) in combination with οἰκία (oikía, “residency”).

(biology, botany, zoology) Having masculine reproductive organs.


treeness

If factors that contribute to a tree-like pattern of the variance–covariance matrix dominate the evolutionary picture over those that tend to destroy it, one can expect treeness to be reasonably high. Only if this is true, reconstruction of the evolutionary process by tree analysis and a tree representation for descriptive purposes can be useful.

1974, L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, A. Piazza, “Analysis of Evolution: Evolutionary Rates, Independence and Treeness”, in Theoretical Population Biology, volume 8, page 159:

The computer programs used to generate “trees” from genetic distance data will do so regardless of what evolutionary factors generated the distances. It is therefore the obligation of the users of such programs to ensure that the genetic distance data have the properties of treeness before representing their data as a tree.

1999, Alan R. Templeton, “Human Races: A Genetic and Evolutionary Perspective”, in American Anthropologist, volume 100, pages 638–639:

Failing to statistically test for treeness, they reify the evolutionary trajectories assumed at the outset.

2007, Gísli Pálsson, Anthropology and the New Genetics, Cambridge University Press,, →ISBN, page 184:

(genetics) The suitability of an evolutionary tree for representing the structure of a population; the degree to which a population structure can be accurately described as a tree of descent, with different branches evolving independently after they split.

puumaisuus

genetics: degree to which a population structure can be described as a tree


icosandrian

(archaic, botany) Relating to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.


frontated

frontated (comparative more frontated, superlative most frontated)

more frontated (comparative)
most frontated (superlative)
frontate (alternative)

(botany) Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.

(zoology) Having a prominent frons or forehead.


euglossine

(zoology) Of or relating to the Euglossini, or orchid bees


eusocially

en-adv

eusocially (comparative more eusocially, superlative most eusocially)

more eusocially (comparative)
most eusocially (superlative)

eusocially organized insect societies


tanagroid

en-adj

tanagroid (comparative more tanagroid, superlative most tanagroid)

more tanagroid (comparative)
most tanagroid (superlative)


alantin

From German Alant (“elecampane”), + -in.


psittaceous

(zoology) Of or relating to psittacids, a group of parrots.


tetradynamous

(botany) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.


Hayflick limit

Named after Leonard Hayflick, who discovered it in 1961.

(biology) The number of times that a normal cell population will divide before it stops, presumably because the telomeres shorten to a critical length.


LCC

en-noun

LCC (countable and uncountable, plural LCCs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of leaf-and-branch compost cutinase.


amphicarpic

From Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “both”) + Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”) + -ic.

af

amphicarpic plant

amphicarpic legume

amphicarpic species


epipodial

epipodial ridge

epipodial tentacle

(zoology) Relating to the epipodium in molluscs.


dimyary

(zoology) Alternative form of dimyarian.


tergeminate

tergeminate leaves

(botany, now rare) Having three pairs of leaflets.


monophyodont

Ancient Greek μονοφυής (monophuḗs, “single”) (μόνος (mónos, “alone”) + φύω (phúō, “produce”)) + ὀδόντος (odóntos) (genitive of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”)).


monophyodont

(biology) Any organism with only one set of teeth.


asperifolious

en-adj

asperifolious (comparative more asperifolious, superlative most asperifolious)

more asperifolious (comparative)
most asperifolious (superlative)
asperifoliate (alternative)

Latin asper (“rough”) + folium (“leaf”).


trifoliated

(botany) Having three leaves or leaflets; trifoliate.


tetragynous

(archaic, botany) Belonging to the former order Tetragynia; having four styles.


tentaculate

tentaculate (comparative more tentaculate, superlative most tentaculate)

more tentaculate (comparative)
most tentaculate (superlative)
tentaculated (alternative)

(zoology) Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.


tectology

Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “a carpenter”) + -logy.

uder

(biology) A Haeckelian division of morphology; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual.


porpitid

(zoology) Any hydrozoan of the family Porpitidae


discifloral

(botany) Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle.


glumelle

glumelles (plural)
glumella (alternative)

Borrowed from French glumelle, diminutive of glume.

(botany) One of the inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.


ballistospore

(mycology) A spore that is ejected or shot off.


antitropal

en-adj

antitropal (comparative more antitropal, superlative most antitropal)

more antitropal (comparative)
most antitropal (superlative)


hemitropous

hemitropous (comparative more hemitropous, superlative most hemitropous)

more hemitropous (comparative)
most hemitropous (superlative)

(botany, of an ovule) Having the raphe terminating about halfway between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous


alcid

Some alcids remain underwater as long as two minutes, exceptionally even longer, and dive to depths of thirty metres.

1977, Jan Hanzák, Jiří Formánek, translated by Olga Kuthanová, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds, London, published 1992, page 177:

(ornithology) A bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins.

alkefugl

seabird of the family Alcidae - an alcid


diadelphian

(obsolete, botany) Of or relating to the former class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower)


corollifloral

(archaic, botany) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx.


trigynous

(botany) Having three pistils or styles.


pholcid

(zoology) Any member of the family Pholcidae of cellar spiders.


blattellid

(zoology) Any of the Ectobiidae (formerly Blattellidae), a family of cockroaches.


allelicity

transcription factor
transcription factor

(genetics) The degree to which the behaviour of a transcription factor is allele-specific


phosphorylome

(biochemistry) A proteome of phosphoproteins.


polyadenine

(biochemistry) A long section of nucleic acid containing only the adenine nucleoside


subfragment

(biochemistry, genetics) A subsection of a fragment (of nucleic acid etc)


gonorynchiform

The milkfish is a gonorynchiform.

(zoology) Any ray-finned fish of the order Gonorynchiformes


enterotype

(biology) A classification of living organisms based on the bacteriological ecosystem in the human gut microbiome


triseriate

(botany) Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.


latifoliate

latifoliate (comparative more latifoliate, superlative most latifoliate)

more latifoliate (comparative)
most latifoliate (superlative)


moss animal

Calque of Bryozoa, which is from Ancient Greek βρύον (brúon, “moss”) + ζῷα (zôia), plural of ζῷον (zôion, “animal”)


lamp shell

lamp shells (plural)
lampshell (alternative)


homodromous

(botany) Running in the same direction; said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.


exciple

(lichenology, mycology) The outer part of an apothecium of those ascomycete fungi which have that sort of fructification. Most lichens come into that category.


amiiform

(zoology) Of or relating to the Amiiformes


ICN

(botany) The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, a body of rules and recommendations governing botanical names.


gerbillid

(zoology) Any member of the murid subfamily Gerbillinae; a gerbil.


cricetid

(zoology) Any member of the Cricetidae, a family of rodents.


IDL

intermediate-density lipoprotein
w:intermediate-density lipoprotein

(biochemistry) Initialism of intermediate-density lipoprotein.


pinguicula

(botany) Any of the genus Pinguicula of butterworts.


thalamifloral

(botany) Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle.


lemuriform

(zoology) Of or relating to the infraorder Lemuriformes.

makimainen

of or relating to infraorder Lemuriformes


lemuriform

(zoology) Any member of the infraorder Lemuriformes.


hydrophyllium

From Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + φύλλιον (phúllion), diminutive of φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

(archaic, zoology) One of the flat, leaf-like, protective zooids covering other zooids of certain Siphonophorae.


carunculate

carunculate (comparative more carunculate, superlative most carunculate)

more carunculate (comparative)
most carunculate (superlative)
carunculated (alternative)

(botany, zoology) Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.


wayfaring-tree

wayfaring-trees (plural)
wayfaring tree (alternative)

Coined c. 1597 by John Gerard, English herbalist. The plant is common along waysides in hedgerows, as might be passed by wayfarers.

Viburnum lantana
Viburnum lantana#Translingual

(botany) A much-branched European shrub of large size (Viburnum lantana), with dense cymes of small white flowers, the foliage and young shoots thickly covered with soft mealy down.


huperzia

From translingual Huperzia (“genus of firmoss”).

bor

(botany) A firmoss of the genus Huperzia.


batrachology

From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + -logy.


strepsipteran

(zoology) An insect of the order Strepsiptera.


solidungulate

(zoology) A mammal having a single hoof on each foot.


bipectinate

(biology) Having two margins toothed like a comb.


triandrian

(botany, obsolete) Of or relating to the former Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.


cryptobranchid

(zoology) Any of the Cryptobranchidae of giant salamanders.


planetic

en-adj

planetic (comparative more planetic, superlative most planetic)

more planetic (comparative)
most planetic (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin planeticus, from Ancient Greek πλανητικός (planētikós), from πλανητός (planētós, “wandering; planetary”), from πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer, planet”), from πλανάω (planáō, “to wander”) + -της (-tēs, masculine agent noun suffix).

af

(biology) Of or relating to the transfer of nuclei between cells (in certain fungi and algae species).


amphitropal

en-adj

amphitropal (comparative more amphitropal, superlative most amphitropal)

more amphitropal (comparative)
most amphitropal (superlative)

From Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “both”) + Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “turn”) + -al.

af

anfítropo

having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side


lecythidaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Lecythidaceae, that includes the Brazil nuts.


semisunny

Give a sunny to semisunny situation, not over 70°F in winter[…]

1993, Elvin McDonald, The new houseplant: bringing the garden indoors:

Rooting at the tips only, it is an ideal subject for covering difficult areas either under trees, in dense shade or in semisunny spots in the woodland garden.

1995, Bill Sheat, Gerald Schofield, Complete Gardening in Southern Africa, page 251:

(chiefly botany) Somewhat sunny; having a certain amount of exposure to the sun.


arillode

arillodes (plural)
arilode (alternative)

The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

(botany) A structure resembling an aril that comes from the ovule as opposed to the stalk.


bradyzoite

(biology) A sessile, slow-growing form of many zoonotic microorganisms that can cause toxoplasmosis.


endocycle

(biology) A cycle of cell replication involving endoduplication.


endoduplication

(biology) Replication of a nuclear genome in the absence of cell division.


endomorphin

(biochemistry) Either of two endogenous opioid peptides


glycopeptidolipid

(biochemistry) Any glycolipid having a glycopeptide component


glycophorin

en-noun

glycophorin (countable and uncountable, plural glycophorins)

(biochemistry) a sialoglycoprotein of the membrane of red blood cells.


heparanase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of heparan sulfate into oligosaccharides


heterodisulfide

(biochemistry) A disulfide formed from the reaction of two different moieties.


leukosialin

(biochemistry) The major sialoglycoprotein of thymocytes and mature T-cells


mechanome

(biochemistry) All the biochemical processes involved in a mechanical (motor) system


paleoendemic

(ecology) That has been endemic in a region for a very long time (but is now more restricted)


erythrophyll

(obsolete, biochemistry) The red pigment of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.


pompilid

(zoology) Any member of the Pompilidae, or spider wasps.


mutualist

en-adj

mutualist (comparative more mutualist, superlative most mutualist)

more mutualist (comparative)
most mutualist (superlative)


mutualist

(biology) Any organism in a symbiotic relation.


monomethylase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes monomethylation


mycobacteriophage

(biology) Any bacteriophage that infects mycobacteria


myrmecochorous

From myrmeco- + -chorous or myrmecochory + -ous.

(biology, botany) Spread, or having seeds that are dispersed, by ants.


nicastrin

(biochemistry) A protease that is a regulator of neprilysin


neprilysin

en-noun

neprilysin (countable and uncountable, plural neprilysins)

membrane metallo-endopeptidase
membrane metallo-endopeptidase

(biochemistry) A particular type of metalloprotease, namely membrane metallo-endopeptidase (MME)

common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen


nopaline

(biochemistry) An opine derived from glutamic acid and arginine


phytoactive

(biochemistry) active in plant biochemistry


toxoplasmastasis

(biology) The equivalent of bacteriostasis in toxoplasmas


mesoherbivore

(ecology) Any medium-sized herbivore (approximately between 50 and 500 kilograms in weight)


macroherbivore

(ecology) Any large herbivore (over approximately 500 kilograms in weight)


piosphere

(ecology) The zone of influence of grazing on a region's vegetation and soil.


recoverin

recoverin (countable and uncountable, plural recoverins)

(biochemistry) A calcium-binding protein found in the photoreceptor cell of the eye.


waterpoint

Animals in good condition and not subjected to physical stress (such as having to transhume or walk far between pastures and waterpoints) usually suffer considerably less than animals on a poor nutritional level and having to expend much physical energy.

1990, M. M. H. Sewell, D. W. Brocklesby, Handbook on Animal Diseases in the Tropics, page 46:

(ecology) A place (such as a watering hole) where water is available to local wildlife.


oxyhaemocyanin

oxyhaemocyanin (countable and uncountable, plural oxyhaemocyanins)


decapodal

(zoology) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet.


apiculated

en-adj

apiculated (comparative more apiculated, superlative most apiculated)

more apiculated (comparative)
most apiculated (superlative)


pleurocarpous

(botany) Side-fruited; said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or capsules are from lateral archegonia.


amidinotransferase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of amidinos.

amidinotransferaasi

any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of amidinos


transcarbamoylase

(biochemistry) Any transferase that catalyzes the transfer of a carbamoyl group.


hylobatid

The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).

1972, Elwyn L. Simons, David R. Pilbeam, “Hominoid Paleoprimatology”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 55:

In the absence of an obvious cause, it must be considered unlikely that hylobatids and great apes (including fossil great apes) would have acquired all of these characters independently.

2001, D. R. Begun, “10: African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of Hominidae”, in Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews, editors, Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe, volume 2, page 238:

However, in cercopithecoids and in hylobatids, the transverse processes are completely embedded in the septum.

2007, Aaron G. Filler, Axial Character Seriation in Mammals, page 120:

(zoology) Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.


hyoidean

From New Latin hȳoīdeus (“hyoid”) + -an.

(anatomy, zootomy, relational) Synonym of hyoid.


hyoideal

From New Latin hȳoīdeus (“hyoid”) + -al.


picarian

(zoology) Of or relating to the Picariae, an obsolete bird classification.


semievergreen

(botany) Losing all of the leaves in winter only if it is cold enough.


semievergreen

semievergreens (plural)
semi-evergreen (alternative)


hypodicrotic

hypodicrotic (comparative more hypodicrotic, superlative most hypodicrotic)

more hypodicrotic (comparative)
most hypodicrotic (superlative)

a hypodicrotic pulse curve

(archaic, biology) Exhibiting retarded dicrotism.


subleaflet

(botany) A leaflet making up part of a subdivided (e.g. bipinnate) leaflet.


labiatiflorous

labiatiflorous (comparative more labiatiflorous, superlative most labiatiflorous)

more labiatiflorous (comparative)
most labiatiflorous (superlative)

The corollas of the ray are distinctly bilabiate, but anthers and style differ so much from all the labiatiflorous genera grouped together in the Tribe Mutisieae that the authors of the Genera Plantarum have judged best to join our genus with the Tribe Asteroideae, in which, if the shape of the corolla be disregarded, it finds a proper place next to Grindelia among the Homochromeae.

1888, William Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands:

(botany, very rare) Having labiate flowers (as the snapdragon).


seminific

(biology) Forming or producing semen; seminiferous.


beauvericin

en-noun

beauvericin (countable and uncountable, plural beauvericins)

(biochemistry) An enniatin depsipeptide with antibiotic and insecticidal effects, isolated from the fungus Beauveria bassiana.


brefeldin A

From Eupenicillium brefeldianum (a fungus in which it is found) + -in.

(biochemistry) A lactone antibiotic produced by fungal organisms such as Eupenicillium brefeldianum, inhibiting transport of proteins from ER to Golgi and inducing retrograde protein transport from the Golgi apparatus to the endoplasmic reticulum.


pardaxin

(biochemistry) A peptide produced by the Red Sea sole, used as a shark repellent.


paxilline

(biochemistry) A potassium channel blocker; a toxic, tremorgenic indole alkaloid produced by Penicillium paxilli.


triacsin C

(biochemistry) A potent vasodilator and inhibitor of long fatty acyl CoA synthetase.


vanabin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of vanadium-binding metalloproteins, found almost exclusively in the blood cells or vanadocytes of some ascidians and tunicates.


ascidiacean

(zoology) Any of the class Ascidiacea of sea squirts.


saprophagan

Natural and sown haylands also differ in the trophic structure of the animal population, with phytophagans and saprophagans about evenly divided in sown legumes and saprophagans dominating in natural grass.

1981, “Soviet geography: Volume 22”, in American Geographical Society of New York:


postgenital

The carpels show various degrees of congenital or postgenital connation (Gut 1966; Ramp 1988).

2010, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, page 279:

(botany) Appearing as an organism matures.


strongyloid

en-adj

strongyloid (comparative more strongyloid, superlative most strongyloid)

more strongyloid (comparative)
most strongyloid (superlative)

(zoology) Like, or relating to genus Strongylus of parasitic nematode worms.


strongyloid

(zoology) Any worm of the genus Strongylus.


vibrion

Presumably from translingual Vibrio + -on and influenced by virion.

(biology, archaic) A microorganism, especially one that is pathogenic.


sesquialteral

From Latin sesquialter + English -al, from sesqui (“a half and a”) + alter (“another, a second”).

(botany, archaic) Having full florets accompanied by lesser ones.

(botany, archaic) Having half as many stamens as petals.

(entomology, archaic) Occupying a third of a wing or including a smaller band or spot in a larger one.


triflorous

a triflorous peduncle

(botany) Having or bearing three flowers or blooms.


caprimulgid

(zoology) Any of the Caprimulgidae, or nightjar family.


streptobacterium

(bacteriology) A supposed variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.


accessory pigment

en-noun

accessory pigment (plural accessory pigments)

(botany) Any non-chlorophyll pigment present in a chloroplast that helps to absorb light but sends all the energy to a chlorophyll.


blenniid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Blenniidae; a combtooth blenny.


stamineous

stamineous nectary

stamineous structure

stamineous flower

(botany) Of, relating to, or attached to stamens.


salsola

(botany) Any member of the genus Salsola of amarantaceous plants, including the saltwort.


tristigmatic

(botany) Having, or consisting of, three stigmas.


consound

Inherited from the Middle English consoude, consowde, consol, consold, consaud, consaude, from the Old English consolde, borrowed from the Old French consolde, consoulde, consoude, inherited from the Latin cōnsolida (“common confrey”), so called because of its supposed healing power.

a Plant commonly call’d the Great Consound or Comfrey; it has Stems which grow two or three Foot high: The Leaves are great, large, hairy, and of a dark Green; […] The small Consound is the most proper for healing of Wounds.

1725, Noel Chomel, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary:

(botany, obsolete) Any of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey.


pleuronectiform

(zoology) Of or relating to the Pleuronectiformes, or flatfish.


pleuronectiform

(zoology) Any member of the order Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes).


scutibranch

(zoology) Any member of the Scutibranchiata.


proboscidial

en-adj

proboscidial (comparative more proboscidial, superlative most proboscidial)

more proboscidial (comparative)
most proboscidial (superlative)


siliquose

siliquose (comparative more siliquose, superlative most siliquose)

more siliquose (comparative)
most siliquose (superlative)
siliquous (alternative)

siliquose plants

siliquose capsules

(botany) Relating to, or resembling, siliques.


exoneme

(cytology) A dense, granular organelle that mediates the exit of parasites from an infected erythrocyte


guanylylcyclase

en-noun

guanylylcyclase (countable and uncountable, plural guanylylcyclases)

guanosine triphosphate
guanosine triphosphate

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the cyclization of guanosine triphosphate


invasin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins associated with the penetration of bacteria into mammalian cells


methylator

(biochemistry) Anything that causes methylation.


substrain

(biology) A subset of a strain, especially one derived from a single cell


ombrophile

(botany) Any plant that flourishes in a rainy environment.


visinin

(biochemistry) A protein found in the retinal cone cell.


embrithopod

(zoology) Any of the Embrithopoda, an extinct order of mammals resembling the rhinoceros.


adrenocholinergic

(biochemistry, physiology) Describing cholinergic effects produced by the adrenal gland


galanin

(biochemistry) A particular inhibitory neuropeptide


isogroup

(genetics) An assembled transcription sequence approximately equivalent to a gene


telotrochal

From telo- + Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel, hoop”) + -al.

der

telotrochal band

(zoology) Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilia; applied to the larvae of certain annelids.


bilamellate

The stigma of the Mimulus is bilamellate.

(botany) Formed of two plates, or lamellae.

(botany) Having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.


subperiodic

(biology) Describing a circadian rhythm that is not precisely periodic


sarcodo

A name applied by Dujardin in 1835. Ancient Greek σαρκώδης (sarkṓdēs, “fleshy”). Compare sarcoid.

uder

In the sarcodo there takes place a process which may be in some measure compared with what occurs in the vitellus after the fecundation of an ovum. The granules becoming united together form groups, which soon divide and subdivide […]

1861, F. Rymer Jones, The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom, page 48:

(biology, obsolete) The gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.


sagittated

en-adj

sagittated (comparative more sagittated, superlative most sagittated)

more sagittated (comparative)
most sagittated (superlative)


epiphloeum

(botany) A corky envelope or outer portion of bark, lying next beneath an epidermis.


mesophloeum

From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + φλόος (phlóos, “bark”).


houstonia

(botany) Any of the genus Houstonia of rubiaceous flowering plants.


serolin

(archaic, biochemistry) A fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.

(biochemistry) A substance found in faeces, thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile.


astacin

en-noun

astacin (countable and uncountable, plural astacins)

(biochemistry) Any of a group of endopeptidases containing a motif that binds zinc


geneticin

(biochemistry) An aminoglycoside antibiotic that blocks polypeptide synthesis


immunocytofluorescence

(cytology, immunology) The use of immunofluorescence to label cells


minimotif

(genetics) A short contiguous peptide motif


cystathionase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of cystathionine into cysteine


deoxygenase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a deoxygenation reaction


deparaffinization

(cytology) The removal of paraffin wax from slides prior to staining


FGF

FGF (countable and uncountable, plural FGFs)

fibroblast growth factor
fibroblast growth factor#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of fibroblast growth factor.


slepez

From Russian слепец (slepec, “blind man; mole rat”).

bor

(zoology, archaic) A type of mole rat, Spalax microphthalmus.


pediculate

(obsolete, ichthyology) Of or relating to the Pediculati, an order of fish now classified as Lophiiformes.


tajassu

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tajaçu, apparently from an Old Tupi word for pig.

bor+

A herd of tajassus or peccaries is a dangerous thing to meet.

1915, George James Bruce, Brazil and the Brazilians:

(zoology, dated) The common or collared peccary.


sorediate

a sorediate lichen

[…] smooth and shiny with large soralia (actually, fruiting warts that have become sorediate and are rarely fertile) […]

2001, Irwin M. Brodo, Stephen Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Lichens of North America, page 527:

(botany) Pertaining to or characterized by the presence of many soredia.


electropherogram

(genetics) A plot of sequence data obtained via electrophoresis


monokine

(biochemistry) A cytokine produced by monocytes (or macrophages)


hyoscyamus

en-noun

hyoscyamus (countable and uncountable, plural hyoscyamuses or hyoscyami)

hyoscyamuses (plural)
hyoscyami (plural)

(botany) Any of the genus Hyoscyamus of henbanes.


pancentromeric

(genetics) Sensitive to both centromere-positive (aneugenic) and centromere-negative (clastogenic) events


prooxidant

prooxidants (plural)
pro-oxidant (alternative)

(biochemistry) Any substance that induces oxidative stress


oxidative stress

oxidative stress (countable and uncountable, plural oxidative stresses)

(biochemistry) damage caused to cells or tissue by reactive oxygen species


transsulfuration

(biochemistry) The metabolic interconversion of cysteine and homocysteine


valosin

(biochemistry) A gastrointestinal oligopeptide that stimulates gastric and exocrine pancreatic secretion


microspecies

(biology) A genotype that is perpetuated by apomixis.

(biology) A small, typically localized population of organisms that is slightly yet effectively distinct from other closely related forms; a group less inclusive than a species, similar to a subspecies.


cycloisomerase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a cycloisomerization reaction


dechlorinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a dechlorination reaction


dehydrochlorinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a dehydrochlorination reaction


diauxic

(biology) Governed by two auxins, and thus ...


hyperhalophile

(biology) A halophile that can survive in extremely salty environments


pangenome

pangenomes (plural)
pan-genome (alternative)

Unlike the previous reference […] the new “pangenome” incorporates near-complete genetic sequences from 47 men and women of diverse origins, including African Americans, Caribbean Islanders, East Asians, West Africans and South Americans. […] But in due course, experts said, the pangenome will revolutionize the field of genomic medicine.

2023 May 10, Elie Dolgin, “Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome”, in The New York Times:

(genetics) The genome of all the strains of a particular clade (most commonly of bacteria and archaea).


pyrotagging

(genetics) sequencing by means of pyrotags


pyrotag

(genetics) A sequence derived from 454 pyrosequencing of PCR-based small subunit ribosomal RNA amplicons.


rhexolytic

(biology) Describing the dehiscence of a cell by the breakdown of the outer wall, between conidia


thiolase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of a thiol group.


matricellular

(biochemistry) Describing extracellular proteins that have a regulatory function in the formation of structural elements in vertebrates


membranotropic

en-adj

membranotropic (comparative more membranotropic, superlative most membranotropic)

more membranotropic (comparative)
most membranotropic (superlative)

(biochemistry, biology) That moves towards, or is active at biological membranes


ribotoxin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of toxic ribonucleases


isoacceptor

(biochemistry) Any of a group of transfer RNA acceptors that can accept the same amino acid


paleome

(genetics) The genome of an extinct species


phylodynamics

(biology, genetics) the study of genetic variation in pathogens, and the affect of such variation on their transmission etc.


heterosaccharide

(biochemistry) Any saccharide composed of more than one simple sugar


mechanobiology

(biology, mechanics) The study of the mechanics (physical forces and interactions) of biological systems


alloparent

And Hrdy further suggests that the immersion of human babies in a pool of alloparents would have honed the mind-reading skills and empathy that are so important to our species, faster than anything else.

2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 142:

In non-humans, alloparents include relatives who have kin-based incentives to help and nonrelatives who are under coercive threat or have no better option for survival.

2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 16, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

Maybe my kids should spend more time with my sister and her kids. Maybe my colleague who has kids around the same age as mine, we should do more sleepovers. So there are all sorts of ways in which could imagine just bringing other alloparents into a relationship.

2023 June 9, Ezra Klein, quoting Kristen Ghodsee, “The Ezra Klein Show: What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(biology, sociology) An adult animal or person involved in parent-like behaviour towards an individual that is not his or her offspring.


hexanucleotide

(genetics) a codon containing six nucleotides


neopterin

(biochemistry) A pteridine, 2-amino-6-(1,2,3-trihydroxypropyl)-1H-pteridin-4-one, that is a catabolic product of guanosine triphosphate


striolate

striolate (comparative more striolate, superlative most striolate)

more striolate (comparative)
most striolate (superlative)


multiseriate

multiseriate (comparative more multiseriate, superlative most multiseriate)

more multiseriate (comparative)
most multiseriate (superlative)


allatostatin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of neuropeptide hormones in insects and crustacea

alatostatina

any of a class of neuropeptide hormones in insects and crustacea


bursicon

en-noun

bursicon (countable and uncountable, plural bursicons)

(biochemistry) A heterodimeric protein that is an insect hormone which mediates tanning in the cuticle of adult flies


chemosensillum

chemosensillum (plural chemosensilla or chemosensillums)

chemosensilla (plural)
chemosensillums (plural)


glycoantigen

(biochemistry, immunology) Any carbohydrate that is an antigen


neuroprotein

(biochemistry) Any protein that is associated with the nervous system


preprohormone

By surface analysis, prepro- + hormone, or, by surface analysis, pre- + prohormone.

(biochemistry) The precursor of a prohormone.


sulfakinin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of neuropeptides found in crustaceans and insects.


autoinduction

(biochemistry) The expression of an enzyme that is responsible for the metabolism of the agent expressing it


biostratinomy

From bio- (“life”) + stratum (“layer”) + -nomy (“law”).

confix

(biology) The study of the processes that take place following the death of an organism


calcofluor

(cytology) A white stain that binds to cellulose and chitin in cell walls


caveosome

(cytology) A proposed membrane-bound organelle associated with caveolae


ecoresponsive

(genetics) Whose gene expression is dependent on environmental variables.


heterochromosome

(genetics) A chromosome rich in heterochromatin


hexosyl

(biochemistry, especially in combination) A univalent radical derived from a hexose


hyalinocyte

(cytology) An agranular haemocyte containing a central nucleus and little cytoplasm.


karyomorph

(genetics) A form of individual having a specific karyotype.


lampbrush

lampbrush chromosome
lampbrush chromosome

(genetics) Used attributively to refer to lampbrush chromosomes


lampbrush chromosome

en-noun

lampbrush chromosome (plural lampbrush chromosomes)

(genetics) A form of chromosome formed of a series of chromomeres with large chromatin loops extended laterally


microchromosome

(genetics) A very small chromosome found in birds and some reptiles


morphonuclear

(cytology) Relating to the shape of a cell nucleus


oxyconformity

(biology, physiology) The change in rate of oxygen consumption in the presence of varying oxygen levels in the environment.


proboscipedia

(biochemistry) A homeotic protein (and associated gene) required for the formation of labial and maxillary palps in flies


sporoplasm

sporoplasm (countable and uncountable, plural sporoplasms)

Sporoplasm varying considerably in size and shape, and sometimes filling all the extra-capsular portion of the shell cavity; in this condition presenting no evidence of segmentation.

1894, R. R. Gurley, The Myxosporidia, Or Psorosperms of Fishes, page 268:

The posterior half portion of the spore is filled with sporoplasm.

1917, Rokusaburo Kudo, “Myxobolus toyamai nov. spec., a new myxosporidian parasite in Cyprinus carpio L.”, in The Journal of Parasitology, volume 3, page 167:

Under appropriate conditions inside a suitable host, the polar tube is discharged through the thin anterior end of the spore, which penetrates the host cell, and is used to inoculate the infective sporoplasm and nucleus (one or two) into the host cell.

2006, Edward J. Bottone, Atlas of the Clinical Microbiology of Infectious Diseases:

(biology) The protoplasm of a spore, particularly in the myxospores.


subtelocentric

(genetics) (of a chromosome) having the centromere closer to one end than to the centre


syndapin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of membrane-active scaffold proteins that participate in endocytosis


terminalize

en-verb

terminalize (third-person singular simple present terminalizes, present participle terminalizing, simple past and past participle terminalized)

terminalizes (present singular third-person)
terminalizing (participle present)
terminalized (participle past)
terminalized (past)

(genetics) (of the bonds between paired chromosomes) To move towards the ends of the chromosomes during meiosis


terraranan

(zoology) Any frog of the genus Pristimantis.


ochreate

(botany) Provided with ocreae, or sheath-formed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.


cytoband

(genetics, cytology) Any of a pattern of bands, formed on chromosomes of cells undergoing metaphase, that serve to identify particular chromosomes


ferrienterobactin

(biochemistry) An iron-chelating siderophore involved in the metabolism of iron


pseudorabies

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central nervous system
central nervous system

(veterinary medicine) A highly contagious herpes virus infection that affects the central nervous system of many animals.

Aujeszky-betegség

a highly contagious herpes virus infection


androstanolone

From androstane + -olone (“steroid or steroid-like drug”).

af

(biochemistry, pharmacology) Synonym of dihydrotestosterone.


enkephalinase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that degrade endogenous enkephalin opioid peptides.


benzoyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the transfer of a benzoyl group


deetiolated

(botany) exposed to light after being grown in the dark


doublecortin

(biochemistry) A microtubule-associated protein expressed by neuronal precursor cells and immature neurons in embryonic and adult cortical structures.


epibrassinolide

Aegle marmelos
Aegle marmelos#Translingual

(biochemistry) A brassinosteroid isolated from Aegle marmelos


glucosylate

en-verb

glucosylate (third-person singular simple present glucosylates, present participle glucosylating, simple past and past participle glucosylated)

glucosylates (present singular third-person)
glucosylating (participle present)
glucosylated (participle past)
glucosylated (past)


hydroxycinnamoyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the transfer of a hydroxycinnamoyl group


hyperploid

(genetics) Having a number of chromosomes that exceeds an exact multiple of the haploid number


hypoploid

(genetics) Having a number of chromosomes that is less than an exact multiple of the haploid number


hypotriploid

(genetics) Having fewer than three chromosomes


metastriate

(entomology) Describing ticks (of the order Ixodida) in which the anal groove of the adult is behind the anus.


trihelix

(genetics) Any of a family of transcription factors found in Arabidopsis and other organisms


macin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of antimicrobial proteins


carboxylesterase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a carboxylic ester


colanic acid

(biochemistry) An exopolysaccharide produced by many bacteria


enteropneust

(zoology) Any member of the Enteropneusta; an acorn worm.


nesprin

From nuclear + envelope + spectrin + repeat.

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins, found in the outer membrane of cell nuclei, that bind to actin or plectin filaments


plectin

en-noun

plectin (countable and uncountable, plural plectins)

(biochemistry) A very large protein that maintains the structural integrity of tissue


fasciolariid

(zoology) Any in the family Fasciolariidae of sea snails.


muscicole

(biology) Growing or living on or among mosses.


pulvinate

en-adj

pulvinate (comparative more pulvinate, superlative most pulvinate)

more pulvinate (comparative)
most pulvinate (superlative)

Latin pulvinatus, from pulvinus (“a cushion, an elevation”).

(zoology) Having the form of a cushion, or used to cushion/provide padding.


superdomain

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(taxonomy) A taxonomic grouping above domain.

(biochemistry) Two or more conserved domains of nominally unrelated origin that appear in the same order in diverse proteins and are inherited as a single structural/functional unit.


hindneck

In this race, crown, nape and hindneck are always black.

2010, Shorebirds (John Marchant, Peter Hayman, Tony Prater), page 56

(ornithology) The area just below the nape of the neck (of a bird).


adiantoid

an adiantoid fern


tenrecid

(zoology) Any member of the family Tenrecidae, the tenrecs


salsolaceous

(botany) Belonging to the family Salsolaceae of salt-tolerant plants (now subfamily Salsoloideae in Amaranthaceae).


myoprotein

(biochemistry) Any protein that occurs in muscle tissue.


melanoprotein

(biochemistry) Any protein that contains melanin as a chromagen


amniochorion

(anatomy, zoology) The amnion and chorion considered as a single unit.


antiproteinase

(biochemistry) Any inhibitor of proteinase activity


chondroclast

(cytology) A large, multinucleated cell involved in the resorption of calcified cartilage


sacculinid

(zoology) Any of the family Sacculinidae, parasitic barnacles in the superorder Rhizocephala.


oniscid

(zoology) Any of the Oniscidae; a woodlouse.


buxaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Buxaceae of the box trees and close relatives.


sarcoderm

(botany) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.


suberose

suberose (comparative more suberose, superlative most suberose)

more suberose (comparative)
most suberose (superlative)

Latin suber (“the cork tree”): compare French subéreux.


caenogastropod

(zoology) Any member of the Caenogastropoda.


coryphaenid

(zoology) Any dolphinfish in the family Coryphaenidae.


conotoxin

(biochemistry, toxicology) A neurotoxic peptide isolated from the venom of a marine cone snail of genus Conus.


endosomotropic

endosomotropic (comparative more endosomotropic, superlative most endosomotropic)

more endosomotropic (comparative)
most endosomotropic (superlative)

(biology) That move towards the endosomal compartment of a cell and accumulate there


epimorphic

(zoology, of an insect larva) That becomes segmented prior to hatching.


gelonin

Gelonium multiflorum
Gelonium multiflorum

(biochemistry) A protein toxin found in the seeds of the Himalayan plant Gelonium multiflorum


intersubtype

(genetics) A recombinant formed of subtypes


lymphohistiocytic

(cytology, physiology) Relating to both lymphocytes and histiocytes


necroptosis

Blend of necrosis + apoptosis, as necroptosis combines characteristics of both processes.

(biology, cytology) A programmed form of necrosis.


prechondroblast

(cytology) A cell that develops into a chondroblast


spermatophore

The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation.

1910 June 20, Gilman A. Drew, “Sexual Activities of the Squid, Loligo pealii (Les.). I. Copulation, Egg-laying and Fertilization”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 22, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, published 1911, page 334:

(zoology) A capsule or pocket enclosing a number of spermatozoa, found in many annelids, brachiopods, insects, mollusks, and crustaceans.


amphoterin

(biochemistry) The nonhistone chromosomal protein HMG-1

anfoterina

the nonhistone chromosomal protein HMG-1


crenula

From Latin *crēnula, diminutive of crēna (“incision; notch”).


phosphosugar

(biochemistry) Any sugar (or higher carbohydrate) that is esterified with a phosphate group


meride

From French méride from Ancient Greek μερίς (merís, “a part”) (genitive μερίδος (merídos)).

The living matter which goes to make up elementary cells , the plastids and merides whose combination constitutes living beings , already assumes , in nucleated cells , a peculiar form giving it distinct specific characteristics[…]

1906, Louis-Lucien Baclé, Future Life in the Light of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science:


subphenotype

(biology, pathology) A subset of a phenotype that is characteristic of a subset of a population


thyrotrope

(cytology) An endocrine cell in the anterior pituitary which produces thyroid-stimulating hormone in response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone.


thyrotropin

en-noun

thyrotropin (countable and uncountable, plural thyrotropins)

thyrotropins (plural)
thyrotrophin (alternative)

(biochemistry) A thyroid-stimulating glycoprotein hormone secreted by the pituitary gland.


polycystin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of glycoproteins, mutation of which is implicated in polycystic kidney disease.


agroinfiltration

(biology) The introduction of a suspension of Agrobacterium into a plant in order to add a specific gene


environmental audit

environmental audit (plural environmental audits)

(business, ecology) A set of evaluations conducted to measure the compliance of a legal entity with the environmental legislation and provide its management with recommendations on improving the environmental indicators.


holometabolous

(entomology) Pertaining to, or undergoing, holometabolism; going through complete metamorphosis.


isochorismate

(biochemistry) an intermediate in the biosynthesis pathways of insect respiration


procalcitonin

(biochemistry) A peptide precursor to the hormone calcitonin


subgranule

(cytology) A cell of the subgranular zone of the brain


ventrianal

(entomology) Between the abdomen and the anus.


viroplasmin

(biochemistry) A multifunctional viral protein.


wiskostatin

(biochemistry) An inhibitor, 1-(3,6-dibromocarbazol-9-yl)-3-(dimethylamino)propan-2-ol, that nonselectively perturbs membrane transport by decreasing cellular ATP levels


scyllarid

(zoology) Any slipper lobster in the family Scyllaridae.


palinurid

(zoology) Any lobster-like crustacean in the family Palinuridae


plantaginaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Plantaginaceae of plantains and close relatives.


muricid

(zoology) Any member of the family Muricidae of rock snails.


myzostomid

(zoology) Any member of the Myzostomida; a kind of parasitic worm.


semiflightless

(zoology) Having very limited flying ability.


psophiid

(zoology) Any member of the Psophiidae; a trumpeter.


liparid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Liparidae.


pholidophorid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Pholidophoridae.


leptolepid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Leptolepidae.


chirocentrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chirocentridae; a wolf herring.


caturid

(zoology) Any member of family Caturidae of extinct bowfins.


palaeoniscid

(zoology) Any extinct fish of the family Palaeoniscidae


tetrandrous

(botany) Belonging to the class Tetrandria


tetrandrian

(botany) Belonging to the class Tetrandria.


macrosympatric

(ecology, of species) Occurring together in large overlapping areas


muralytic

(biochemistry, of an enzyme) That removes a muramyl group from a compound


lutjanid

Among other families, the lutjanids appear to be gonochoristic throughout life although the population sex ratio as well as the sex ratio at size may frequently be skewed resulting from differential growth and mortality rates among the sexes (Grimes, 1987).

1993, Andrew Wright, “Chapter 8: Shallow Water Reef-associated Finfish”, in Andrew Wright, Lance Hill, editors, Nearshore Marine Resources of the South Pacific, page 225:

Smaller species of lutjanids require fewer resources per individual and can form schools year-round.

1996, M. L. Domeier, C. Koenig, F. Coleman, “Reproductive Biology of the Gray Snapper (Lutjanus griseus), with Notes on Spawning for other Western Atlantic Snappers (Lutjanidae)”, in Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, J. L. Munro, M. C. Balgos, Daniel Pauly, editors, Biology, Fisheries, and Culture of Tropical Groupers and Snappers, page 199:

The tightly coiled gut, small gas bladder, pigment pattern, early-forming head spination and early-forming spines of the pelvic fin and dorsal fin are useful distinguishing characteristics of the lutjanids.

2000, J. M. Leis, D. S. Rennis, “52: Lutjanidae (Snappers and Fusiliers)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 336:

(zoology) Any member of the family Lutjanidae; a snapper.


chelydrid

Some of the chelydrids are extinct.

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Chelydridae.


amphilinid

(zoology) Any member of the Amphilinidea, an order of parasitic flatworms.


bluestripe

(zoology, chiefly attributive) Any of various fishes or other animals bearing a blue stripe.


trachichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Trachichthyidae.


monocentrid

(zoology) Any of the family Monocentridae of pinecone fishes.


eubelid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Eubelidae.


armadillidiid

(zoology) Any pill bug in the family Armadillidiidae.

armadilídeo

any member of the family Armadillidiidae


porcellionid

(zoology) Any woodlouse in the family Porcellionidae.


aristolochiaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Aristolochiaceae of tropical vines.


amphisbaenid

From scientific Latin Amphisbaenidae (family name).

Today, four species of amphisbaenids survive in Europe—two on the Iberian Peninsula and two in Turkey.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 51:

(zoology) Any member of the Amphisbaenidae; a worm lizard.


annonaceous

The soursop fruit comes from an annonaceous plant.

Those of the biriba attain a diameter of six or eight inches, and have been pronounced to be the finest annonaceous fruit of tropical America.

1917 May 7, Vaughan MacCaughey, “The genus Annona in the Hawaiian islands”, in Torreya, a Monthly Journal of Botanical Notes and News, volume 17, number 5, page 76:

(botany) Of or pertaining to the soursop and other members of the Annonaceae family.


anobiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Anobiidae (now often included in family Ptinidae) of boring beetles.

anobiídeo

any member of the family Anobiidae of boring beetles


acanthisittid

(Ornithology) Any member of the Acanthisittidae.


acanthizid

(ornithology) Any member of the Acanthizidae.


acanthoceratid

(zoology) Any member of the Acanthoceratidae.


acanthochitonid

(zoology) Any member of the Acanthochitonidae.


acanthoclinid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Acanthoclinidae now considered the plesiopid subfamily Acanthoclininae, the longfins.


acanthodrilid

(zoology) Any member of the Acanthodrilidae.


acanthonotozomatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Acanthonotozomatidae of crustaceans.


acanthosomatid

(entomology) Any member of the Acanthosomatidae.


acanthurid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Acanthuridae of surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes.


acastid

(zoology) Any trilobite in the family Acastidae.


acavid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Acavidae.


accipitrid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Accipitridae of birds of prey.


acerentomid

(zoology) Any proturan in the family Acerentomidae.


achatinellid

(malacology) Any member of the family Achatinellidae of gastropods.


achatinid

(malacology) Any member of the Achatinidae.


achirid

(ichthyology) Any member of the Achiridae.


acipenserid

1989, Laurie J. Bryant, Non-dinosaurian Lower Vertebrates Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Northeastern Montana, Geological Sciences: Volume 134, University of California Press, page 17,
A second distinct acipenserid morphotype occurs in the Hell Creek and Tullock formations. It is not found in the Lance Formation in Wyoming, although acipenserids are so rare in the Lance Formation that this is possibly the result of sampling error.

While acipenserid outgroups lack any extensive scalation, the most distinctive hallmark of acipenserids is their scutes (Character 1).

1997, E. K. Findeis, “Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of sturgeons (Acipenseridae)”, in Vadim J. Birstein, John R. Waldman, William E. Bemis, editors, Sturgeon Biodiversity and Conservation, page 121:

Why is it that shortnose sturgeon - the far more residential of the two sturgeons - appears to nearly stop growing at adulthood and at a small size for an acipenserid whereas the more marine Atlantic sturgeon continues to grow and to a potentially massive size?

2006, J. R. Waldman, “Diadromous Fishes”, in Jeffrey S. Levinton, John R. Waldman, editors, The Hudson River Estuary, page 183:

(ichthyology) Any member of the Acipenseridae (the true sturgeons)


aclerdid

(entomology) Any member of the family Aclerdidae.


acmaeid

(malacology) Any gastropod in the family Acmaeidae.


acrasid

(biology) Any member of the slime mold family Acrasidae.


acridid

(entomology) Any member of the family Acrididae of locusts and related grasshoppers.


acrobatid

feather-tailed possum
feather-tailed possum

(mammalogy) Any marsupial of the family Acrobatidae; a feathertail glider or a feather-tailed possum.


acrocerid

The Acrocerids are very curious and characteristic flies on account of their small head, large, bulbous thorax, inflated abdomen and large thoracic squamulae.

1907, William Lundbeck, Diptera Danica: Genera and Species of Flies Hitherto Found in Denmark, G.E.C. Gad, →OCLC:

The winged form of acrocerids is characterized by a great reduction in the size of the head, by very great increase of the thorax with weak legs, and by small, often costalized wings; the flies feed, if at all, on the nectar of flowers.

1974, Boris B. Rohdendorf, The Historical Development of Diptera, University of Alberta Press, →OCLC, page 86:

(entomology) Any fly of the family Acroceridae.


acrochordid

(herpetology) Any member of the family Acrochordidae.


acropomatid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Acropomatidae.


acroporid

(zoology) Any coral in the family Acroporidae.


acteonellid

acteonellids (plural)
actaeonellid (alternative)

And marine snails called actaeonellids abounded, the largest of which, shaped like an artillery shell, would fill your hand.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 27:

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Acteonellidae.


acteonid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Acteonidae.


actinoceratid

(zoology) Any of the extinct cephalopods in the family †Actinoceratidae.


actinolepid

(zoology) Any of the extinct placoderms in the family Actinolepidae.


acuariid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Acuariidae.


adapid

(zoology) Any extinct primate of the family Adapidae


adapisoricid

(zoology) Any of the extinct mammals in the family Adapisoricidae.


adelid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Adelidae.


adelogyrinid

(zoology) Any amphibian in the extinct family †Adelogyrinidae.


aderid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Aderidae.


adocid

(zoology) Any of the extinct turtles in the family Adocidae.


adrianitid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Adrianitidae.


aegeriid

(zoology) Any of the clearwing moths in the family Aegeriidae.


aeglid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Aeglidae.


aegothelid

(zoology) Any member of the Aegothelidae.


aeolothripid

(zoology) Any of the thrips in the family Aeolothripidae.


aepyornithid

(zoology) Any member of the Aepyornithidae.


aeshnid

(entomology) Any member of the Aeshnidae.


agaonid

(zoology) A fig wasp, of family Agaonidae.


agariciid

(zoology) Any stony coral in the family Agariciidae.


agelenid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Agelenidae.


ageneiosid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Ageneiosidae, which is now considered to be part of the family Auchenipteridae.


aglajid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Aglajidae.


agonid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Agonidae.


agonoxenid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Agonoxenidae, now considered a subfamily of the family Elachistidae.


agriolimacid

(malacology) Any member of the family Agriolimacidae.


agromyzid

(entomology) Any member of the family Agromyzidae.


agyrtid

(entomology) Any member of the family Agyrtidae.


aidid

Aidids have presumably homologous warts, although these do not bear long secondary setae.

1996, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, volumes 580-589, page 96:

(entomology) Any member of the family Aididae.


ailurid

From New Latin Ailuridae, as Ailurus + -id.

(mammalogy) Any member of the family Ailuridae.


akerid

(malacology) Any sea snail in the family Akeridae.


akysid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Akysidae.


albanerpetontid

The bones of strange amphibians known as albanerpetonids (sic), and the ancestors of the midwife toads, which are among the most ancient of European creatures, have been recovered, as have the bones of python-like snakes known as matsoiids, terrestrial crocodiles with serrated teeth, legless lizards, ancestral skink-like creatures, and whiptail lizards.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 25:

(paleontology) Any member of the family Albanerpetontidae.


albulid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Albulidae.


albuneid

(zoology) Any member of the family Albuneidae.


alcedinid

(ornithology) A kingfisher, any member of the family Alcedinidae.


alcyoniid

(zoology) Any member of the Alcyoniidae.


alepisaurid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Alepisauridae, the lancetfishes.


alepocephalid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Alepocephalidae, the slickheads.


alestid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Alestidae.


aleyrodid

But aleyrodid pests of agricultural crops are usually highly polyphagous, and a good portion of aleyrodids on palms come from their ranks.

2001, F. W. Howard, Insects on Palms, page 167:

2007, F. Szentkiràlyi, Chapter 9: Lacewings in Fruit and Nut Crops, P. K. McEwen, T. R. New, A. E. Whittington (editors), Lacewings in the Crop Environment, page 213,
Aleyrodids produce honeydew, attracting numerous indigenous predators (Uygun et al., 1990).

2012, Ivo Hodek, Edward W. Ecans, 5: Food Relationships, Ivo Hodek, A. Honek, Helmut F. van Emden, Ecology and Behaviour of the Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae), page 174,
Among 13 natural enemies species, Har. axyridis and P. japonica were predators of the aleyrodid Bemisia tabaci in cotton fields of northern China in 2003 through 2005 (Lin et al. 2008).

(zoology) Any insect of the whitefly family, Aleyrodidae.

aleirodídeo

any insect of the whitefly family, Aleyrodidae


alismatid

(zoology) Any member of the Alismatidae.


alloposid

(zoology) Any octopus in the monotypic family Alloposidae, which consists only of the seven-arm octopus, Haliphron atlanticus.


allosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Allosauridae.


almid

(zoology) Any annelid worm of the family Almidae.


alpheid

(zoology) Any member of the family Alpheidae, the pistol shrimps.


alveolinid

(biology) Any foraminifer in the family Alveolinidae.


alydid

(entomology) Any member of the family Alydidae, the broad-headed bugs.


amaltheid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Amaltheidae.


amastrid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Amastridae.


amaurobiid

(arachnology) Any spider in the family Amaurobiidae.


ambassid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Ambassidae.


amblyopsid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Amblyopsidae: several species of North American cavefish, and the swampfish or ricefish.


amblystomid

(zoology, obsolete) Alternative form of ambystomid.


ambulocetid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean in the family Ambulocetidae.


ambystomatid

(zoology) Any salamander of the family Ambystomatidae


whaitsiid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Whaitsiidae.


wynyardiid

(zoology) Any extinct marsupial in the family Wynyardiidae.


xenacanthid

(paleontology) Any prehistoric shark of the family Xenacanthidae.


xeniid

(zoology) Any soft coral in the family Xeniidae.


whatcheeriid

(zoology) Any member of the Whatcheeriidae.


wuttagoonaspid

This view is not followed by Young (e.g., 1980, 2005c) who considered the wuttagoonaspids and the phyllolepids as close related taxa, […]

2008, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 28, numbers 1-3, page 17:

(zoology) Any placoderm of the family Wuttagoonaspidae.


xarifiid

In order to recover xarifiids from fragments or whole colonies of Scleractinia the corals were treated in the following manner.

(zoology) Any copepod of the family Xarifiidae.


xenicid

(zoology) Any member of the family Xenicidae, which is currently considered to be a synonym of the Acanthisittidae.


xenisthmid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Xenisthmidae.


xenoceltitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Xenoceltitidae.


xenodiscid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Xenodiscidae.


xenopeltid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Xenopeltidae.


xenophorid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Xenophoridae.


xenosaurid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Xenosauridae.


xenoturbellid

(zoology) any primitive bilaterian animal in the family Xenoturbellidae.


xiphiid

(zoology) A fish in the family Xiphiidae; a swordfish.


xiphocentronid

(zoology) Any caddis fly in the family Xiphocentronidae.


xiphodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Xiphodontidae.


xiphydriid

(zoology) Any of the family Xiphydriidae of woodwasps.


xyelid

Like raphidiids, xyelids have the mesopleuron divided into an episternum and epimeron by a distinct mesopleural suture, but the suture is angled much more obliquely and the epimeron is much smaller than the episternum (Figs. 8-10).

1993, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada:

(zoology) Any sawfly in the family Xyelidae.


xylocopid

(zoology) Any in the family Xylocopidae of carpenter bees, now considered the apid subfamily Xylocopinae.


xylomyid

(zoology) Any fly in the family Xylomyidae of wood soldier flies.


xylophagid

(zoology) Any fly in the family Xylophagidae.


xyloryctid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Xyloryctidae.


xystodesmid

(zoology) Any millipede in the family Xystodesmidae.


yoldiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Yoldiidae of bivalves.


younginid

(paleontology) Any member of the Younginidae.