longicone

Coordinate term: brevicone

(malacology) A long, thin, conic shell, as of some Paleozoic cephalopods.


longiconic

(malacology) Relating to, having the form of, or composed of, longicone(s).


phragmoconic

It is entirely phragmoconic. The ribs are straight rectiradiate and branch at the ventral shoulder to give rise to two to three secondary ribs . As the venter is somewhat eroded little detail is visible there .

Occasionally triplicate ribs are also seen at the phragmoconic stage. Biplicate with intercalation can also be seen. The body chamber shows regular trifurcation. The overall ornamentation is prorsiradiate which shows appreciable[…]

2006, Dr. Surendra Prasad, Ammonite Biostragigraphy of Middle to Late Jurassic Rocks of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, India:

(malacology) Relating to, or composed of, phragmocone(s).


Higgs bison

Higgs bison (plural)
Higgs Bison (alternative)
Higgs-Bison (alternative)

Blend of Higgs boson + bison. From being elusive, not being found after a long search, akin to how the Higgs boson proved time-consuming to find. Higgs was chosen due to the similarity between boson and bison, and its characteristic mysteriousness, due to not being found.

Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle.

2016 October 19, Robby Berman, “Scientists Identify the Elusive Higgs Bison”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 2022-10-05:

But now, cave art and further DNA testing have finally unraveled the origins of Higgs Bison, which turns out to be a previously undescribed hybrid animal. The research appears in the journal Nature Communications.

2016 October 19, Jason Daley, “Cave Paintings Help Unravel the Mystery of the ‘Higgs Bison’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:

The discovery of a missing hybrid ancestor—nicknamed the Higgs-Bison after the Higgs-Boson, a particle posited by theoretical physicists before it was proven to exist—confirmed this cross-breeding had occurred.

[2023, Christopher J. Preston, Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 86:

Bison bonasus
Bison bonasus#Translingual

Bos primigenius
Bos primigenius#Translingual

(informal, paleontology, biology) The ancestor of the European bison (Bison bonasus), a species originating from the hybridization of the aurochs (Bos primigenius) and the steppe bison (Bison priscus).


lituiticone

From or related to the genus name Lituites.

An endogastric cyrtocone, the basal part sectioned showing the position of the siphuncle P.
A lituiticone. All side views, except M, have the shell oriented with the venter to the left a a earlier whorls.

1964, New Mexico. Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir:

Description A nautiloid with a shell only partially coiled in a flat spiral (lituiticone) : the coiling appears in the first whorls, which may be only slightly touching, and the shell subsequently develops in a straight line[…]

1986, Paolo Arduini, Giorgio Teruzzi, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils, Simon & Schuster:

[…] The shells are slender orthocones or rapidly expanding lituiticones, either weakly cyrtoconic or with the apical part spirally[…]

2020 March 10, Winston Frank Ponder, David R. Lindberg, Juliet Mary Ponder, Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 2, CRC Press, →ISBN:

(malacology) A conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.


lituiticonic

Conch lituiticonic, with relatively large, compressed, loosely coiled adapical spiral, and a rather rapidly expanding, somewhat compressed uncoiled segment, which has a sigmoidal ventral outline in its adapical portion.

Lituiticonic uncoiling of nautiloid conchs foreshadows much more extensive development of a similar trend among some Cretaceous ammonoids. It was formerly thought that most of the foregoing stages constituted an evolutionary series[…]

1960, William Heyden Easton, Invertebrate Paleontology:

It has a rich macrofauna with Brachiopods, Gastropods, Nautiloids (orthoceraconic, cyrthoceraconic and lituiticonic) and Trilobites. The processed sample RG 68 comes from a point located on the right bank of the Guandacol River[…]

1973, Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina), Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias:

(malacology) Relating to, having the form of, or composed of, lituiticone(s).


nautiliconic

(malacology) Relating to, having the form of, or composed of, nautilicone(s).


torticonic

(malacology) Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a torticone; having the form of a conical corkscrew.


nautilicone

(malacology) A shell having the form of a coiled spiral (in which the whorls impress each other) like a nautilus.


torticone

(malacology) A shell (as of a snail, cephalopod, etc) having the form of a conical corkscrew, a twisted cone.


ectocochlear

These may be very elongate (longicone) or short and rather swollen (brevicone). It has been generally assumed that all fossil cephalopods with straight or curved shells were ectocochlear, i.e. that the shell was wholly external to the body.

2013 July 23, E. N. K. Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

Such markings would be apparent only if they were external; this is regarded as good evidence that in such taxa the conch was ectocochlear. Additional evidence is given by cells encrusted with oriented patterns of epizoans that attached[…]

2019 June 4, Ronald Singer, Encyclopedia of Paleontology, Routledge, →ISBN:

(malacology, rare) Having the shell external to the body.


tarphyceracone

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tarphyceracone.

(malacology) A shell or conch in which the whorls or volutions are in contact (but are not deeply involute).


tarphyceraconic

(malacology) Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a tarphyceracone.


ellipticonic

(malacology) Relating to, composed of, or having the form of an ellipticone.


ellipticone

(malacology) A shell which has an elliptical (oval or egg-shaped, rather than e.g. spherical) shape.


cyrtoceraconic

(malacology) Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a cyrtoceracone.


orthoceraconic

(malacology) Relating to, composed of, or having the form of an orthoceracone.


orthoceracone

(malacology) A shell which has a straight cone shape.


cyrtoceracone

From cyrto- + (from κυρτός (kurtós)) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + cone?

Coordinate term: cyrtocone

(malacology) A shell which has a curved cone shape.


bactriticonic

(malacology) Relating to, composed of, or having the form of a bactriticone.


bactriticone

(malacology) A shell which has a straight cone shape, like certain primitive Ammonoidea.


trizygotic

(biology) Derived from three eggs that have been separately fertilized.


xenobot

blend

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Xenopus</i>

(biology, robotics, artificial life) An artificial construct built from cells extracted from Xenopus embryos, and designed to move, consume, and build piles.


desert pea

(botany) an Australian plant in the genus Swainsona, distinctive for its blood red leaf-like flowers


semileafless

(botany) Having very few leaves; applied especially to a variety of pea plant.


zombie taxon

Referring to the fossil having been mobile, or "walking", long after the death of the original organism.

(paleontology) A taxon that falsely appears to persist until, or reappear at, a time in the fossil record later than the taxon's actual point of extinction, due to fossils of organisms belonging to the taxon having been eroded from their original strata and redeposited in the source sediments for younger strata.


juxtanodin

(biochemistry) An oligodendroglial protein that binds actin


mycosaccharide

(biochemistry) Any sugar present in fungi


xenoamicin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of acylated depsipeptides present in the pathogen Xenorhabdus.


myrtalean

(botany) Belonging to the Myrtales clade.


regulatome

(biochemistry) All the regulatory metabolic pathways of an organism


pipimorph

(zoology) Any of the frogs of the clade Pipimorpha.


anancine

(zoology) Any of the extinct genus Anancus of elephantoid proboscideans native to Afro-Eurasia.


tarantulid

(zoology) Any member of the arachnid family Tarantulidae.


disparid

(zoology) Any member of the clade Disparida of extinct marine animals.


farm cat

(zoology) A domestic cat, usually of a mixed breed, that lives primarily outdoors, in a feral or semiferal state on agricultural properties and is expected to provide pest control by hunting rodents.


palisade worm

(helminthology, zoology) A nematoid worm, Strongylus equinus, which parasitizes the blood vessels of a horse, producing aneurysms, often fatal.


miniproteinase

(biochemistry) A relatively small proteinase


metacell

(biology) A (population of) nucleic acid profiles of individual or groups of cells


de novo lipogenesis

en-noun

de novo lipogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural de novo lipogenesises)


kenotoxin

kenotoxin (countable and uncountable, plural kenotoxins)

(biochemistry, obsolete) A supposed toxin thought to be generated by exertion and to cause fatigue.


ebioscience

(biology) Any form of bioscience that uses electronics or the Internet


hypoglutamylation

(biochemistry) Less than normal glutamylation


edgotype

(genetics) A node or edge in an interactome network


ansamitocinoside

(biochemistry) Any glycoside of ansamitocin


depositivore

(biology) Any animal that feeds on marine deposits


protoalkaloid

(biochemistry) A precursor of an alkaloid, typically one that is not heterocyclic


hyperpalmitoylation

(biochemistry) Excessive palmitoylation, typically leading to astrogliosis


palmitome

(biochemistry) The collection of palmitoylated proteins of an organism


inosose

(biochemistry) A sugar present in muscle tissue


phalacrocoracine

(zoology) Relating to the Phalacrocoracidae.


craspedotal

(zoology) Of or relating to the Craspedota.


theront

From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”) + -ont.

der

(microbiology, ichthyology) The stage where a tomite elongates (swims away) after being released from the cyst.


tomite

(microbiology, ichthyology) The division of a tomont within a cyst.


protomont

(microbiology, ichthyology) An immature or beginning stage of a tomont.


protomite

(microbiology, ichthyology) An immature or beginning form of a tomite.


blackflap blenny

en-noun

blackflap blenny (plural blackflap blennies)

(ichthyology) Cirripectes auritus, a species of combtooth blenny found in saltwater coral reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean.


subdeletion

subdeletion (countable and uncountable, plural subdeletions)


PHC

Coordinate term: PHA

(astronomy, ecology, geology) Abbreviation of potentially hazardous comet.


abietineous

(botany) Of or relating to the Abietineae.


acutilingual

For example, the shape of the horn can be like a comb or the moon, and the shape of the head can be acutilingual or lamellirostral.

2021, Jianwei Zhang, Stefan Wermter, Fuchun Sun, Cross-Modal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction, page 2101:

(zoology) Having a sharply pointed tongue or oral region.


fimbriome

(biology) All the fimbriae of an organism


perichromatic

(biology) Surrounding the chromatin of a cell nucleus


citrullinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that hydrolyses citrulline to produce ornithine


EHF

Ebola hemorrhagic fever
w:Ebola hemorrhagic fever

(medicine, virology) Initialism of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.


EVD

EVD (countable and uncountable, plural EVDs)

Ebola virus disease
w:Ebola virus disease

(medicine, virology) Initialism of Ebola virus disease.


salikase

(biochemistry) An enzyme capable of hydrolyzing salicin to dextrose and saligenin.


dendroclone

(zoology) A kind of regular or irregular branching spicule in certain sponges.


archichlamydeous

(botany) Of or relating to the Archichlamydeae.


dombeya

(botany) Any of the flowering plants of the genus Dombeya.


autodifferentiation

Spermatogenic cells appear to be incapable of autodifferentiation in an anhormonal environment.

1981, C. R. Austin, Colin Russell Austin, Robert Geoffrey, Mechanisms of Sex Differentiation in Animals and Man, page 66:

Undifferentiated gonia undergo autodifferentiation to oocytes in the absence of any hormone.

2012, Karl Maramorosch, Invertebrate Tissue Culture: Research Applications, page 67:

The undifferentiated dorsal skin of the tail bud of a 9—10 day duck embryo, cultured on a natural medium containing embryo extract, underwent autodifferentiation to produce, within 8-10 days, the typical glandular invaginations (7).

Singh et al. (2013) reported that a coating of fibronectin (attachment protein) on SF/CE membrane exhibited enhanced adhesion and autodifferentiation of stem cells.

2019, Valentina Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu, Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Biopolymer Fibers, page 360:

(biology) Automatic differentiation and specialization of cells; autonomous development.


autoskeleton

(zoology) The true skeleton of a sponge, composed of elements secreted by the sponge itself.


glossograptid

(zoology) Any member of the Glossograptidae, an extinct family of graptolites.


heptadecaglycoside

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) A glycoside containing seventeen sugar moieties


epicotylar

The basipetally differentiating epicotylar vasculature and the root-hypocotyl-cotyledon vasculature are ontogenetically separate and establish connection just below the cotyledons.

1984, Journal of Plant Anatomy and Morphology, volumes 1-2, page 77:

Shoots regenerated from epicotylar end were selected on kanamycin (50 mg/L) and the shoots derived from the axillary bud primordia of cotyledonary node failed to survive on kanamycin.

2013, Pawan K. Jaiwal, Rana P. Singh, Applied Genetics of Leguminosae Biotechnology, page 78:


ammonialyase

ammonialyases (plural)
ammonia-lyase (alternative)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that converts an amine into ammonia


concolonial

(biology) Between members of the same colony.


merisis

merisis (countable and uncountable, plural merises)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μερίς (merís, “part”) + -sis (forming nouns of action or progress)

af

(biology) Any form of growth; specifically, growth by increase in number of cells.


cellless

Salt tolerance, salt accumulation, and ionic homeostasis in an epidermal bladder-cellless mutant of the common ice plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Journal of Experimental Botany 58, 1957. Albert, R. (1975).

2011 May 10, Plant Responses to Drought and Salinity stress: Developments in a Post-Genomic Era, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 187:

However, the fluxes of potassium (k+) and chlorine (Cl-) cause a hyperpolarization making the cellless excitable. The opening of these channels is either voltage-dependent or linked to a neurotransmitter (Safini, Bouskraoui, Pédiatrie,[…]

2019 February 22, Kholoud Kahime, Moulay Abdelmonaim El Hidan, Omar El Hiba, Denis Sereno, Lahouari Bounoua, Handbook of Research on Global Environmental Changes and Human Health, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 326:

Germ cellless encodes a cell type-specific nuclear pore-associated protein and functions early in the germ-cell specification pathway of Drosophila. Genes Dev. 8, 2123–2136. Kasahara, K., Chida, K., Tsunenaga, M., Kohno, Y., Ikuta, T.,[…]

2003, Kwang W. Jeon, International Review of Cytology: A Survey of Cell Biology, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 53:


pairing time

(zoology) A time when birds or other animals bond or mate.


immunotactoid

immunotactoids seen on histopathology

Because immunotactoids may be composed of either immune complexes or monoclonal proteins, which are capable of forming tactoids or microtubules, the variability in the size and the orientation of the tactoids from one patient to another may be a result of concentration or biochemical composition of the protein similar to that described in cryoglobulinemia.

2006, Korbet SM, Schwartz MM, Lewis EJ, “Immunotactoid glomerulopathy (fibrillary glomerulonephritis)”, in Clin J Am Soc Nephrol, volume 1, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1351–1356:

(biology, medicine) A tactoid of immune origin and formation, composed of immune complexes, monoclonal proteins, or both; such microscopic structures (described variously as microtubules, tubules, fibrils, or crystals) can interfere with glomerular function in the kidneys.


tateril

(zoology) Gerbil of the genus Taterillus.


erebosis

(biology) A form of cell death found in the fruit fly gut that is part of homeostasis


phosphofructomutase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the interconversion of isomers of fructose phosphates


heterodromy

(botany) The property of being heterodromous.


pteraspidomorph

(zoology) Any member of the Pteraspidomorphi, an extinct class of early jawless fish.


ringleist

(microbiology) A ridge on the frustule of Aulacoseiraceae species.


preprothyrotropin

thyrotropin-releasing hormone
thyrotropin-releasing hormone

(endrocrinology, biochemistry) A large precursor protein of thyrotropin-releasing hormone, derived by posttranscriptional processing and enzymatic modification.


thyrotropin-releasing hormone

thyroid-stimulating hormone
thyroid-stimulating hormone

(biochemistry) A hypophysiotropic hormone produced by neurons in the hypothalamus that stimulates the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and prolactin from the anterior pituitary.


preproorexin

(endocrinology, biochemistry) A precursor of orexin, selectively expressed in the lateral hypothalamic area.


prepro-

From biology circa the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the development of the science of posttranslational modification; by surface analysis, pre- + pro-.

Coordinate term: pro-

(biology) Denoting a precursor (molecule).


August plum

(botany) A wild plum tree of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh (Prunus americana).


flehmen response

en-noun

flehmen response (plural flehmen responses)

(zoology) A behavior in which an animal curls back its upper lip exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils usually closed, and then often holds this position for several seconds.


photokinase

(biochemistry) A kinase involved with photokinesis


onygenalean

During the last two decades, many onygenalean pathogens were discovered […]

2020, Chaturvedi, V., de Hoog, G.S., “Onygenalean Fungi as Major Human and Animal Pathogens”, in Mycopathologia, volume 185, →DOI, page 1:

(mycology) Of or pertaining to the fungal order Onygenales.


blastomycete

(mycology) A fungus of the genus Blastomyces.

Thus granulomata may be due to an infection by schizomycetes or fission-fungi, by hyphomycetes or mould-fungi, and by blastomycetes or yeast-fungi.

1898, Alexander GR Foulerton, “On the Pathology of some Specific Grainulomata in Horses and Cattle”, in Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, volume 11, pages 103–114:


metaeffector

(biochemistry) An effector (protein) of an effector


hemicomplementation

(genetics) Partial genetic complementation


hemicomplemented

(genetics) Modified by hemicomplementation


stephanoceratoid

(paleontology) A member of the Stephanoceratoidea superfamily of cephalopods


antilipoid

[…] its peculiar behavior toward the lipoids suggests strongly that it is a product of the toxic action of the causal parasite upon the lipoids of the body-cells and is in the nature of an antilipoid.

1915, John Albert Kolmer, A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy, page 247:

Lipoids, which are autogenous in the circulation, when injected with hog serum, produce formation of antilipoids in the rabbit.

1928, U.S. Public Health Service, Venereal Disease Information, page 49:

(biochemistry) A substance that destroys or degrades lipoids.


bioexpression

(genetics) biological expression of a gene


phosphonatase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that hydrolyses phosphonates


spurge olive

(botany) Synonym of spurge-laurel (Thymelaea passerina).


sarcosinase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that hydrolyses sarcosine moieties from proteins


isoantagonism

(biology, rare) Antagonism between same species in a shared environment.


isoantagonistic

(biology, rare) Relating to, or exhibiting, isoantagonism.


β-amino acid

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of beta-amino acid.


phosphoglycosyltransferase

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


phosphoglycosyl

(biochemistry) A glycosyl group attached to a phospholipid


thymonucleate

(biochemistry) Any salt of a nucleic acid.


toxifilin

(biochemistry) An actin present in chromists of the genus Toxoplasma


autocolonial

This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual cells.

1914, Gilbert Morgan Smith, The Organization of the Colony in Certain Four-celled Coenobic Algae, page 1175:

Single-chambered globular forms with attachment scars, in the Late Ordovician Maysville Group of Kentucky, are most likely referrable to Sorosphaera tricella Moreman, 1930 inasmuch as such specimens occur with autocolonial specimens of S. tricella.

1981, James Elvin Conkin, Barbara M. Conkin, Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) Smaller Foraminifera from the McCraney Limestone of Missouri and Illinois, page 12:


AAX

Isoprenylation is followed by cleavage of the AAX amino acid residues and, in some cases, by additional proteolytic cuts.

2013, Edward E Pryor Jr, Peter S Horanyi, Kathleen M Clark, Nadia Fedoriw, Sara M Connelly, Mary Koszelak-Rosenblum, Guangyu Zhu, Michael G Malkowski, Michael C Wiener, Mark E Dumont, “Structure of the integral membrane protein CAAX protease Ste24p”, in Holden Thorp, editor, Science, volume 339, number 6127, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1600–1604:

(biology) An amino acid that includes a side chain X.


AAY

(botany) Initialism of American aster yellows.


archiestrogen

(biochemistry) A naturally occurring estrogen mimic.


leccinoid

(mycology) referring to a group of fungi that includes Leccinellum, Leccinum, Spongiforma, and Retiboletus griseus.


XopR

(bacteriology, biochemistry) A toxic protein secreted by Xanthomonas that damages plants


XopN

(bacteriology, biochemistry) A toxic protein secreted by Xanthomonas that damages plants by damaging their immune response


badione A

Named after translingual Xerocomus badius + -one.

(mycology) A ketone pigment produced by Xerocomus badius with SMILES C1=CC(=CC=C1/C(=C\2/C(=C(C(=O)O2)C3=CC4=C5C(=C3)C(=O)C(=O)OC5=C(C=C4C6=C(/C(=C(/C7=CC=C(C=C7)O)\C(=O)O)/OC6=O)O)O)O)/C(=O)O)O


graphoglyptid

(paleontology) A trace fossil in the form of a horizontal wriggly burrow found in deep water.


enteronephry

(anatomy, zoology) Of certain invertebrates, the opening of nephridial ducts directly into the digestive tract.


lophate

(biology) Having a surface morphology of ridges surrounding depressions. Applied to seeds, pollen, spores, teeth.


stannomid

(biology) A member of the Stannomida order.


psamminid

(biology) A member of the order Psamminida.


stercome

stercome (plural stercomes or stercomata)

Derived from the German Sterkom coined by Fritz Schaudinn in 1899 in "Untersuchungen über den Generationswechsel von Trichosphaerium sieboldii Schn". Abhandlungen der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1898: 44https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96964#page/462/mode/1up. Corresponds to Latin stercus (“dung”) + -ome.

(biology) An extracellular pellet of waste material produced by some groups of foraminiferans.


stercomare

(biology) A mass of stercomata in an organic tube


rachi-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin rachis, from Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “spine, ridge”).

der

classical compound
international scientific vocabulary


calyctomine

(biochemistry) An alkaloid found in shikakai (Acacia concinna), (1-hydroxymethyl-6,7-dimethoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline).


acetylcholinic

(biochemistry) Of or relating to acetylcholine.


eopterosaur

(paleontology) A member of the Eopterosauria clade.


flavadine

https://books.google.com/books?id=mynNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1348&lpg=PA1348 Dictionary of Alkaloids with CD-ROM edited by John Buckingham, Keith H. Baggaley, Andrew D. Roberts, Laszlo F. Szabo page 1348

(biochemistry) An alkaloid derived from Aconitum flavum, 12-acetyl-N-oxide-napelline.


neoline

(biochemistry) A diterpene alkaloid from Aconitum plants, 20-ethyl-6α,16β-dimethoxy-4-(methoxymethyl)aconitane-1α,8,14α-triol.


aconitane

(biochemistry) A diterpene alkaloid fundamental parent, (1R,2R,3R,5R,8S,9R,13R,17R)-11-azahexacyclo[7.7.2.1^(2,5).0^(1,10).0^(3,8).0^(13,17)]nonadecane.


prezizane

(biochemistry) A tricyclic terpene found in agarwood.


daphniphylline

(biochemistry) A terpene alkaloid, (3β,7R,8α,22S-23-[(1R,4R,5S)-1,4-dimethyl-2,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-4-yl]-23-oxodaphnan-22-yl acetate


ECV

en-noun

ECV (countable and uncountable, plural ECVs)

extracellular volume
extracellular volume#English

(biology) Initialism of extracellular volume, the volume of fluid, etc., in an organism that is outside the organism's cells.


zygaenoid

Many zygaenoids are chemically defended as larvae (e.g., Dalceridae, Megalopygidae, and Limacodidae), […]

2017, Robert G. Foottit, Peter H. Adler, Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, volume 1, page 482:

(zoology) A member of the superfamily Zygaenoidea.


decap

en-verb

decap (third-person singular simple present decaps, present participle decapping, simple past and past participle decapped)

decaps (present singular third-person)
decapping (participle present)
decapped (participle past)
decapped (past)

(biology) To enzymatically remove a cap from mRNA.


rNMP

The units of RNA, termed ribonucleoside monophosphates (rNMPs), have been recently found as the most abundant defects present in DNA.

2014, Hsiang-Chih Chiu et al., “RNA intrusions change DNA elastic properties and structure”, in Nanoscale, volume 6, number 17, →DOI:

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of ribonucleoside monophosphate.


glycophagy

(biology, biochemistry) feeding on, or metabolism of sugars, especially glucose


tetrapentapeptide

(biochemistry) An oligopeptide formed from forty-five amino acid units


radiodont

(paleontology) A member of the Radiodonta order of Cambrian arthropods


polySia

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of polysialic acid.


kleptopredator

(biology, ecology) An animal that engages in kleptopredation.


monoreassortant

(genetics) reassortant in a single manner


mud duck

mud ducks (plural)
mudduck (alternative)

Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata#Translingual

(zoology) The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata).


BCAR

(genetics, oncology) Acronym of breast cancer anti-estrogen resistance gene.


Bernese mountain dog

en-noun

Bernese mountain dog (plural Bernese mountain dogs)

(zoology) A large dog breed, one of the four breeds of the Sennenhund-type dogs from the Swiss Alps.


Sennenhund

(cynology, zoology) Farm dogs of the general livestock guardian type, consisting of four breeds, all sporting a unique tricolor coat.


secondary predation

(biology, ecology) A form of predation when one predator feeds on a second predator, which has in turn already consumed a target prey.


indirect predation

(biology, ecology) A nonconsumptive suppression of prey by a predator.


megaraptor

(paleontology) A member of the genus Megaraptor of large theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Turonian to Coniacian ages of the Late Cretaceous.


phosphatidylthreonine

(biochemistry) The phospholipid phosphatidyl threonine that regulates calcium homeostasis


saprobity

saprobity (countable and uncountable, plural saprobities)

(ecology) A measure of the amount of decaying organic material in an environment such as a river.


mesocline

Coordinate term: xerocline

The xeroclines receive stronger light for longer periods than do the mesoclines, while the mean temperatures of air and of soil are higher by 5-10 degrees Fahr., […]

1931, John Frederick Vicars Phillips, Forest-succession and Ecology in the Knysna Region, page 132:


xerocline

Coordinate term: mesocline


bleeding-heart monkey

bleeding-heart monkey (plural bleeding-heart monkeys)

From bleeding-heart + monkey, so named for the bright red patches of skin on the breast.

(zoology) Synonym of gelada (Theropithecus gelada, Theropithecus pavian)


amphitriploid

(genetics) Having a triploid set of chromosomes from each of its parents


Indomalayan realm

(ecology, biogeography) One of the eight biogeographic realms, extending across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.


biotransferase

(biochemistry) Any naturally-occurring transferase


nonconsorting

In contrast, subjects responded much more weakly when they heard a nonconsorting male's grunts and the female's copulation call played from different speakers.

2008, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, page 105:


hepatoflavin

(biochemistry, rare) A derivative of vitamin B which prevents skin lesions and weight loss.


hepatitis delta virus

hepatitis delta virus (plural hepatitis delta viruses)

hepatitis delta viruses (plural)
HDV (alternative)
hepatitis D virus (alternative)

(virology) One of the five known hepatitis viruses, the cause of hepatitis D.


Taeniopteryx nebulosa

(entomology) A stonefly of the springtime, mainly found on slow-flowing lowland streams.


PEMT

PEMT (countable and uncountable, plural PEMTs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase.


mitoregulin

(biochemistry) A microprotein that supports mitochondrial supercomplexes


myoregulin

(biochemistry) A micropeptide that regulates muscle performance


elaeagnus

(botany) Any plant of the genus Elaeagnus.


UPD

(genetics) Initialism of uniparental disomy.


euopisthobranch

Clipping of translingual Euopisthobranchia

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Euopisthobranchia</i>

(malacology) Any gastropod in the clade Euopisthobranchia


myokinome

(biochemistry) All the myokines present in an organism


de-extinct

en-verb

de-extinct (third-person singular simple present de-extincts, present participle de-extincting, simple past and past participle de-extincted)

de-extincts (present singular third-person)
de-extincting (participle present)
de-extincted (participle past)
de-extincted (past)

In 2012, Australian researchers briefly de-extincted an amphibian they dubbed ‘the Lazarus frog’ (Rheobatrachus silus), an unusual creature with one hell of a party trick (to find out what it was, you’ll have to read Chapter 5).

2016, Helen Pilcher, Bring Back the King: the new science of de-extinction, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN, page 16:

From a technical perspective, de-extincting a Neanderthal would be the easiest task of all, for human reproduction is extremely well understood, and the Neanderthal genome is known.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 308:

Revive & Restore, a branch of the Long Now Foundation, is currently attempting to de-extinct the passenger pigeon in a project called The Great Comeback.

2020, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

(biology, neologism, transitive) To return an extinct species back into the world.


crow-line

(ornithology) The straight and direct path of a crow's flight.


xiphiiform

The sword and the spear are formed of the greatly produced premaxillary bones and constitute the most marked character of the xiphiiform fishes.

1940, Eugene Willis Gudger, The Alleged Pugnacity of the Swordfish and the Spearfishes as Shown by Their Attacks on Vessels, page 219:

Scientific investigation on xiphiiform fishes from Formosa

1955, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 356:


Monro-Kellie hypothesis

Named after Scottish physicians Alexander Monro Secundus (1733–1817) and George Kellie (1770–1829), who developed the hypothesis.

(biology) A hypothesis according to which the volumes of brain, cerebrospinal fluid and intracerebral blood add up to a constant sum, so that any change in one is reflected in the others.


polymaltose

(biochemistry) Any polymeric carbohydrate composed of many maltose units


glucosamidase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that hydrolyses glucosamide


stylelike

en-adj

stylelike (comparative more stylelike, superlative most stylelike)

more stylelike (comparative)
most stylelike (superlative)

(botany) Resembling or characteristic of a style.


zygotoid

(biology) The product of the union of gametoids, analogous to a zygote.


quincubital

(ornithology) Having a fifth cubital remex.


aquincubital

(ornithology) Lacking a fifth cubital remex.


alpha-tocopherol

(biochemistry) The predominant form of vitamin E.


dendroolithid

(paleontology) A member of the family Dendroolithidae.


falcatid

(paleontology) A member of the Falcatidae family.


paraortygid

(paleontology) A bird from the extinct Paraortygidae family.


marRAB

Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli#Translingual

(bacteriology) multiple antibiotic resistance operon of Escherichia coli.


fbiC

(biochemistry, bacteriology) A gene found in Mycobacterium bovis that codes an enzyme involved in the production of coenzyme F₄₂₀-5.


pyroglutamase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis of pyroglutamic acid.


hpaB

Abbreviation of hydroxyphenylacetate + B

(biochemistry, bacteriology) A gene encoding the 4-hydroxyphenylacetate 3-monooxygenase enzyme in Escherichia coli.


cathartiform

(paleontology) A bird in the order Cathartiformes, which contains the New World vultures in the family Cathartidae and their extinct relatives in the family Teratornithidae (though many taxonomists classify them in the order Accipitriformes instead).


octopodoid

(zoology) A member of the cephalopod superfamily Octopodoidea.


scaphitid

(paleontology) An ammonite from the Scaphitidae taxonomic family.


strophomenoid

(paleontology) A brachiopod in the superfamily Strophomenoidea.


myrmeleontoid

(entomology) A lacewing in the superfamily Myrmeleontoidea.


euomphaloceratine

(paleontology) An ammonite in the acanthoceratid subfamily Euomphaloceratinae.


paleomalacology

(paleontology) paleontology of mollusks (fossil shells).


buchanosteoid

(paleontology) A fossil fish of the superfamily Buchanosteoidea.


callorhynchid

(paleontology, ichthyology) A fish in the family Callorhynchidae, now considered a synonym of the Callorhinchidae.


cloudinid

(paleontology) Any extinct animal in the family Cloudinidae.


mauritianin

(biochemistry) A natural product: kaempferol 3-O-(2,6-di-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranoside


aistopod

(paleontology) A snake-like amphibian from the order Aistopoda.


argiotoxin

(biochemistry) One of several polyamine toxins isolated from the orbweaver spider.


argiopine

(biochemistry) An argiotoxin with IUPAC name (2S)-N-[5-[3-[3-(2S)-2-[[amino-5-(diaminomethylideneamino)pentanoyl]amino]propylamino]propylamino]pentyl]-2-2-(2,4-[[dihydroxyphenyl)acetyl]amino]butanediamide


land slug

land slugs (plural)
land-slug (alternative)


water snail

water snails (plural)
water-snail (alternative)

From water + snail. Compare land snail, sea snail, etc.

(zoology) An aquatic (usually freshwater) snail.

especially, a pond snail (Lymnaeidae spp.)


corydaldine

(biochemistry) A bicyclic isoquinoline ketone alkaloid with IUPAC name 6,7-dimethoxy-3,4-dihydro-2H-isoquinolin-1-one


mustakone

Derived from the Hindi word मोथा (mustaka) for Cyperus rotundus. Named by V.H. Kapadia, B.A. Nagasampagi, V.G. Naik, Sukh Dev in 1965.

(biochemistry) A tricyclic sesquiterpenoid with IUPAC name 1,5-dimethyl-8-propan-2-yltricyclo[4.4.0.0^(2,7)]dec-4-en-3-one


acciptrid

(zoology) Any bird from the Accipitridae family


esteratic

esteratic (comparative more esteratic, superlative most esteratic)

more esteratic (comparative)
most esteratic (superlative)

The acetyl group of acetylcholine can bind to the esteratic site of cholinesterase.

(biochemistry) Of or pertaining to esters.


Henry's pocket

If you examine a dog's ear very gently, you will find a little fold of skin ... known as Henry's pocket

1971, Olive Royston, Living Creatures of an English Home, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 64:

[M]ites can be seen ... in Henry's pocket of the ear (especially in cats)

1991, D. I. Grant, Skin Diseases in the Dog and Cat, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, →ISBN, page 44:

The small folds of skin found inside cats' ears are called 'Henry's pockets'

2021 March 26, “Feline Friday Adoptable 'Cool Cats'”, in Greenville Daily Advocate, Greenville, OH, page 2:

(anatomy, zoology) The cutaneous marginal pouch in the ear of an animal, especially a cat or dog.


gregatin

(biochemistry) A kind of fungal metabolite containing a 2-methylfuran-3-one with three other side chains, including a hexene or hexadiene at ring position 2 and an acyl at position 4.


βETE

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of β-exotoxin I exporter.


nyctitheriid

(paleontology) Any member of the family †Nyctitheriidae of extinct mammals.


myoglossatan

myoglossatan (comparative more myoglossatan, superlative most myoglossatan)

more myoglossatan (comparative)
most myoglossatan (superlative)

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Myoglossata</i>

Based on molecular data, Kristensen et al. (2015) contradicted the myoglossatan monophyly, in favour of the clade Acanthopteroctetidae + ...

2022 June 27, Weiting Zhang, Chungkun Shih, Michael S. Engel, Dong Ren, Cretaceous lophocoronids with short proboscis and retractable female genitalia provide the earliest evidence for their feeding and oviposition habits:

Other putative myoglossatan au- tapomorphies include the somewhat enlarged median mesonotal wing process, as well as the upwards bend of acrotergite I and ...

1998, Teilband/Part 35 Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography:

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the clade Myoglossata, including butterflies and moths.


philinoid

(malacology) Any member of the superfamily Philinoidea of sea slugs.


anisogamety

(biology) A difference in the size or structure of conjugating gametes.


daily torpor

(biology, zoology) A type of heterothermy which lasts less than 24 hours and is accompanied by continued foraging.


tachymetabolism

(biology, zoology) A fast metabolism at rest.


root system

(botany) The structure comprising the roots of a plant.


osmophily

Pelhate (1968) considered osmophily as being an aspect of xerophily; the ability of a fungus to support high osmotic pressures induced by higher concentrations of NaCl, sucrose or polyethylene glycol would allow a rapid and faithful evaluation of its xerophily.

1974, R.A. Samson, J. Mouchacca, “Some interesting species of Emericella and Aspergillus from Egyptian desert soil.”, in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, volume 40, number 1, →DOI, page 130:

(microbiology) The quality of growing well under high osmotic pressure.


scleromorphy

(botany) Quality of being scleromorphic.


astrapotherian

(paleontology) Any member of the order †Astrapotheria of extinct mammals.


physonome

(entomology) A blister-shaped area of damage on a leaf caused by a leaf miner.


aarF

(genetics) A gene that is required to make coenzyme Q.


coenzyme Q

(biochemistry) A coenzyme used in bacteria and animals containing 5,6-dimethoxy-3-methylcyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione with an isoprene side chain.


actophorin

(biochemistry) A protein that cuts actin filaments into monomers, found in Acanthamoeba.


coenzyme Q10

(biochemistry) The coenzyme Q found in humans with 10 isoprene units on the side chain.


GGT

(biochemistry) Initialism of gamma-glutamyltransferase.


luxoid

Named by Green in 1955 (probably inspired by luxate meaning dislocated + -oid)

(genetics) A gene which when mutated in mice produces skeletal abnormalities.


New Pangaea

The New Pangaea’s threat to global species diversity disappeared because we looked at the species–area curve among provinces. But the same curve predicts the effect of area-loss itself.

2001 March, Michael L. Rosenzweig, “The four questions: What does the introduction of exotic species do to diversity?”, in Evolutionary Ecology Research, volume 3, number 3, pages 361–367:

According to the Olden paper, in the New Pangaea many species will become more uniform genetically.

2003 October 7, Carl Zimmer, “The New Pangaea”, in Science:

By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.

[2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

(ecology) A notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.


vasodentin

(zoology) Dentin containing capillaries found in some vertebrates.


creeping gromwell

en-noun

creeping gromwell (plural creeping gromwells)


blue creeping gromwell

blue creeping gromwell (plural blue creeping gromwells)

creeping gromwell
creeping gromwell#English


phyllodinous

en-adj

phyllodinous (comparative more phyllodinous, superlative most phyllodinous)

more phyllodinous (comparative)
most phyllodinous (superlative)


glyptosaurine

Clipping of translingual Glyptosaurinae + -ine

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Glyptosaurinae</i>

suf

(paleontology, zoology) Any extinct anguid lizard of the subfamily Glyptosaurinae, known for their osteoderms.


obdeltate

(botany) In the shape of an equilateral triangle with the apex at the base.


tyro-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”).


nucleoconch

en-noun

nucleoconch (plural nucleoconchs or nucleoconches)

nucleoconchs (plural)
nucleoconches (plural)

This nucleoconch is less than half the size of that seen in the sections of D. crassa.

1945, John West Wells, American Old and Middle Tertiary Larger Foraminifera and Corals, page 77:

A microspheric nucleoconch does not have an obvious deuteroconch, and is followed by a spiral nepionic stage, no matter what the adult chamber arrangement may be.

1954, Alan Hilder Smout, Lower Tertiary Foraminifera of the Qatar Peninsula, British Museum (Natural History), page 25:

(zoology) The embryonic shell of a foraminifera, especially the protoconch and deuteroconch of a megalospheric form.


whitevein

(botany) Having white veins; applied to the perennial herb Pyrola picta.


bilicyanin

From international scientific vocabulary, from German Bilicyanin. By surface analysis, bili- + cyan- + -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., bilicyanin, bilicyanine).

surf

(biochemistry) A blue (or bluish) bile pigment found in gallstones and formed by oxidation of biliverdin or bilirubin.


wyrilda

(botany) Acacia confluens, found in Australia.


retypification

en-noun

retypification (usually uncountable, plural retypifications)

(botany) The act of typifying again (selection of a new type specimen or type species).


dimidiately

en-adv

dimidiately (comparative more dimidiately, superlative most dimidiately)

more dimidiately (comparative)
most dimidiately (superlative)


licinine

(entomology) Any member of the Licininae subfamily of beetles.


amoebo-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from amoeba.

ameb- (alternative)
amebo- (alternative)
amoeb- (alternative)
amœb- (alternative)
amœbo- (alternative)


lamb's cress

en-noun

lamb's cress (countable and uncountable, plural lamb's cresses)

lamb's cresses (plural)
lambscress (alternative)
land cress (alternative)
landcress (alternative)

From Middle English *lambes-cresse, from Old English lambes cerse (“lamb's cress”), equivalent to lamb + -'s + cress.

inh

(botany) An annual or biennial species of plant (Cardamine hirsuta) in the family Brassicaceae that is edible as a salad green.


littorarian

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Littoraria</i>

(zoology) Any sea snail in the genus Littoraria, which are a genus of periwinkles.


warty thick-toed gecko

en-noun

warty thick-toed gecko (plural warty thick-toed geckos or warty thick-toed geckoes)

warty thick-toed geckos (plural)
warty thick-toed geckoes (plural)

From warty + thick-toed gecko (gecko of genus "Elasmodactylus").

com

(zoology) Elasmodactylus tuberculosus, a species of eastern-African gecko.


ascar-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin Ascarididae.

(biology, medicine) Parasitic nematodal helminths of family Ascarididae.


supratrochanteric

(zoology, anatomy) Above the trochanter of the femur.


metatars-

(biology, medicine) Alternative form of metatarso-.


metatarso-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin metatarsus (whence also English metatarsus).


metacarp-

(biology, medicine) Alternative form of metacarpo-.


allant-

(biology, medicine) Alternative form of allanto- (before a vowel)


alveol-

(biology, medicine) Alternative form of alveolo- (before a vowel)


CAPP

(biochemistry) Acronym of ceramide-activated protein phosphatase.


adnavirus

(virology) Any member of the Adnaviria realm of viruses.


aspergillomycosis

(biology, medicine) A fungal infection by fungi of the genus Aspergillus, as:

(usually strictly) A specific such disease in some fish, such as tilapia.

(occasionally loosely) Aspergillosis as a pulmonary or cutaneous disease in humans, certain livestock, and some other animals.


aspergillo-

/ˌæspəɹˈd͡ʒɪloʊ-/

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from aspergillus, from Aspergillus.

(biology, medicine) aspergillus (Aspergillus).


aspergillotoxicosis

en-noun

aspergillotoxicosis (usually uncountable, plural aspergillotoxicoses)

(biology, medicine) Any disease caused by any mycotoxin produced by fungi of the genus Aspergillus, such as aflatoxicosis.


eulepidine

If it should appear, as Yabe believes (1929), that L. ephippioides is also of the eulepidine type, then there is no specific difference between the two last mentioned species […]

1937, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 11, page 104:

The embryonic chambers are eulepidine.

1953, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 36:

The trybliolepidine type has developed independently from the eulepidine.

2015, Vladimir Pokorný, John W. Neale, Principles of Zoological Micropalaeontology, page 438:

(zoology) Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.


subjulaceous

en-adj

subjulaceous (comparative more subjulaceous, superlative most subjulaceous)

more subjulaceous (comparative)
most subjulaceous (superlative)


subamentaceous

subamentaceous (comparative more subamentaceous, superlative most subamentaceous)

more subamentaceous (comparative)
most subamentaceous (superlative)

(botany) Somewhat or imperfectly amentaceous.


amygdalo-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Latin amygdala; compare also English amygdala § Etymology.


particulate inheritance

(genetics) A pattern of inheritance showing that phenotypic traits can be passed from generation to generation through genes, which can keep their ability to be expressed while not always appearing in a descending generation.


verbenalol

(biochemistry) An aglycone of verbenalin.


motorics

(biology) The motor faculties generally.


aetosaurine

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Aetosaurinae</i>

(paleontology) A member of the sufamily Aetosaurinae, of the family Stagonolepididae.


typothoracine

Clipping of translingual Typothoracinae, itself from Typothorax + -inae.

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Typothoracinae</i>

(paleontology) Any stagonolepidid aetosaur of the subfamily Typothoracinae.


ceratitidine

en-adj

ceratitidine (comparative more ceratitidine, superlative most ceratitidine)

more ceratitidine (comparative)
most ceratitidine (superlative)

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Ceratitidi</i>

The research included development of a diagnostic tool for identification of ceratitidine tephritids, and we had an opportunity to test this on maggots that were intercepted from a shipment originating in Europe.

(Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:

(entomology) Related to flies of the tephritid tribe Ceratitidini.


dacine

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Dacinae</i>

Objective 3 included the incorporation of several thousand additional specimens into the web-accessible, Afrotropical tephritid database (M. De Meyer and I. White) and the revision of Afrotropical dacines (White).

(entomology) Any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.


acanthocinine

Also collected one A. cazieri on a rain gauge, Mecas rotundicollis and one as yet undetermined acanthocinine cerambycid on miscellaneous foliage, one tiger beetle (Cicindela sedecimpunctata?) on the roadside, and two orange lycids in flight.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:

(entomology) Any longhorn beetle of the tribe Acanthocinini.


bumelia borer

A notable find was the pile of larval frass of Plinthocoelium suaveolens (bumelia borer) at the base of a living Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia) tree—a sure sign of active infestation by a beetle I have yet to formally record from this place.

(coleopterology, entomology) Plinthocoelium suaveolens, a species of beetle which bores into bumelia trees.


cactus longhorn beetle

en-noun

cactus longhorn beetle (plural cactus longhorn beetles)

We checked the cholla (Cylindropuntia imbricata) along the way hoping to see Coenopoeus palmeri (one of the cactus longhorns, which I’m not sure has been recorded from Oklahoma) or at least one of the more widespread Moneilema species, but none were seen (nor really expected).

(coleopterology, entomology) Any beetle of the genus Moneilema, which are commonly found on cacti.


cryptocephaline

From ultimately translingual Cryptocephalus + -ine.

suf

ultimately translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Cryptocephalus</i>

I rarely get anything beating Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia), but I beat most of the trees that I saw anyway and collected one cryptocephaline chrysomelid and two curculionoids.

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the subfamily Cryptocephalinae or the tribe Cryptocephalini.


clytrine

I was committed to trying to find Agrilus on the plants—a single individual of which I’d beaten from the plants three days earlier, and after beating several plants and seeing none (but collecting a great number of clytrine and cryptocephaline chrysomelids along with other insects) I finally found one!

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the beetles of the tribe Clytrini or the former family Clytrinae.


L-xylulokinase

en-noun

L-xylulokinase (countable and uncountable, plural L-xylulokinases)

adenosine triphosphate
adenosine triphosphate

adenosine diphosphate
adenosine diphosphate

L-xylulose 5-phosphate
L-xylulose 5-phosphate

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and L-xylulose, producing ADP (adenosine diphosphate) and L-xylulose 5-phosphate. It's a phosphotransferase used in metabolism.


suchomimus

suchomimus (plural suchomimus or suchomimuses)

suchomimus (plural)
suchomimuses (plural)

Borrowed from translingual Suchomimus, from sucho- + Latin mīmus (“mimic”).

(paleontology) Any spinosaurid dinosaur in the genus Suchomimus from the Early Cretaceous Period.


informal group

(taxonomy) Sometimes used to indicate that a formerly accepted taxonomic group is considered not to be paraphyletic or polyphyletic.


subterclass

From Latin subter (“below, underneath”) + class.

(taxonomy) A taxonomic rank below infraclass.


ankylurethria

(biology, medicine) Impaired patency of the urethra owing to any sort of fusion that either partially or completely obstructs its lumen (for example, stricture due to adhesions).


enoplan

(zoology) Of or relating to the worms of the class Enopla.


true sole

(ichthyology) Any sole of the family Soleidae.


necromorphous

(biology) Of a pupa: resembling the imago except for being perfectly quiescent, as if dead.


vernacular name

vernacular name (plural vernacular names)

(taxonomy) A name other than a taxonomic name, in a vernacular language, used to refer to an organism, often corresponding to a taxonomic name, but often not.


taxonomic name

(biology) A name, Latin in form, used to identify, in principle unambiguously, an organism (or group of organisms), formerly usually based solely on shared morphological feature, now usually on hypothesized common evolutionary descent.


netleaf

(botany) Applied to certain plants having reticulated or net-like leaves.


daspletosaur

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Daspletosaurus</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur in the genus Daspletosaurus.


tyrannoraptoran

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tyrannoraptora</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur of the clade Tyrannoraptora.


alamosaur

Clipping of translingual Alamosaurus, often misattributed to the Alamo.

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Alamosaurus</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur in the genus Alamosaurus.


argentinosaur

Clipping of translingual Argentinosaurus

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Argentinosaurus</i>

(paleontology) Any sauropod of the genus Argentinosaurus.


tsintaosaurin

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tsintaosaurini</i>

(paleontology) Any ornithopod of the tribe Tsintaosaurini.


aralosaurin

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Aralosaurini</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur of the tribe Aralosaurini.


hadrosauromorph

Clipping of translingual Hadrosauromorpha

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Hadrosauromorpha</i>

Phylogenetic analysis positions Gobihadros mongoliensis as a Bactrosaurus-grade hadrosauromorph hadrosauroid.

2019 April 17, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, David B. Weishampel, David C. Evans, Mahito Watabe, A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous Baynshire Formation of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia):

In the background are a small horned dinosaur known as Zuniceratops and the hadrosauromorph Jeyawati

2019 May 6, Photos: Tiny Tyrannosaur Dinosaur Was About As Big As T. Rex's Skull:

Smaller specimens are identifiable as juvenile hadrosauromorphs.

2020 August 15, Chase Doran Brownstein, Osteology and phylogeny of small-bodied hadrosauromorphs from an end-Cretaceous marine assemblage:

(paleontology) Any ornithopod of the clade Hadrosauromorpha.


dilophosaur

dilophosaurs (plural)
dilophosaurus (alternative)

Clipping of the taxonomic name Dilophosaurus.

The Dilophosaurus (dye-LA-fuh-SAWR-us), also shortened to Dilophosaur or even more so Dilo, is one of the dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved.

(Can we date this quote?), Dilophosaur - Ark: Survival Evolved Wiki:

See the Dilophosaur up close and explore more of Utah's dinosaurs and prehistoric past at Moab Giants Dinosaur Park.

(Can we date this quote?), DILOPHOSAUR: TRACKMAKER OF THE KAYENTAPUS FOOTPRINT:

(paleontology) Any theropod of the genus Dilophosaurus from the Jurassic, distinguished by having two plates on its head.


sisoroid

(ichthyology) Any member of the Sisoroidea superfamily of catfish.


adelophthalmid

(paleontology) Any member of the Adelophthalmidae family of eurypterids.


waeringopteroid

(paleontology) Any member of the Waeringopteroidea superfamily of extinct eurypterids.


pterygotioid

(paleontology) Any member of the Pterygotioidea superfamily of extinct eurypterids


WGS

We also ensured that the cell lines were derived from participants for whom whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data were available for both parents (for haplotype phasing).

2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:

whole genome sequencing
w:whole genome sequencing

(genetics) Initialism of whole genome sequencing.


zhelestid

The dinosaurs arriving from Asia proved the hardiest immigrants, though zhelestids (primitive insect-eating mammals that resembled elephant shrews) also somehow made it.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 31:

(paleontology) An extinct eutherian mammal of the family Zhelestidae.


anteroverted

en-adj

anteroverted (comparative more anteroverted, superlative most anteroverted)

more anteroverted (comparative)
most anteroverted (superlative)
antroverted (alternative)

/ˌæn.t͡ʃɹəˈvɝː.tɪd/

The head is small and placed upon a short, distinct neck, and is thus less sessile than in Proterotherium, more antroverted and with the pit for the round ligament less extended proximally, but of similar ovoid shape, with the long axis directed anteroposteriorly.

1901, John Bell Hatcher, Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899, volume 7:

If the uterus is sharply antroverted or retroverted, it is often difficult to determine whether the os is open or closed as the axis of the cervix and the endometrial cavity lie in different planes.

1999, Robert G. Dart, Beth Kaplan, Kalli Varaklis, “Predictive value of history and physical examination in patients with suspected ectopic pregnancy”, in Annals of Emergency Medicine, volume 33, number 3, →DOI:

The operator maintains a view on the image screen as the transducer is advanced along the anterior vaginal wall, with the goal of final placement in the anterior fornix for the 90% of patients with an anteroverted uterus.

2017, James A. Connolly, Beatrice Hoffmann, Anthony J. Dean, Robert D. Jarman, Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound, page 129:


hantkeninid

But la grande coupure occurred in two pulses about 350,000 years apart, just after the last hantkeninids found their eternal rest.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 82:

(paleontology) A member of the extinct family Hantkeninidae of planktonic foraminifera.


hell pig

As if hell pigs were not enough of a blight on the Oligocene landscape, Europe was home to two more groups of pig-like creatures.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 86:

(zoology) An extinct pig-like mammal of the family Entelodontidae; an entelodont.


Strain 121

From strain and 121, the temperature (in Celsius) at which the organism lives.

(microbiology) Geogemma barossii, an archaea, one of the most resilient hyperthermophiles known.


griphopith

From scientific Latin Griphopithecus (genus name).

Griphopiths from all locations have shared derived characters that make them unique and very different from the Early Miocene apes.

2011, Patricia J. Ash, David J. Robinson, The Emergence of Humans:

Griphopiths are the earliest hominids, and their appearance in Europe at least a million years earlier than in Africa suggests that our family most likely arose in Europe—and not, as has been long assumed, in Africa.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 112:

(paleontology) Any of a group of morphologically similar early hominids of the genera Griphopithecus and Kenyapithecus.


Texas ebony

(botany) An evergreen tree of Texas and Mexico, Ebenopsis ebano.


European jaguar

en-noun

European jaguar (plural European jaguars)

The European jaguar inhabited the continent from about 1.6 million years ago until around 500,000 years ago.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 152:

(paleontology) An extinct species of jaguar, Panthera gombaszoegensis, which lived in Europe during the Pleistocene.


yabby pump

→ Japanese: ヤビーポンプ

In eastern Australia, Callianassa can be obtained in quantities with relative ease by using a local invention (the "yabby pump") which will be described. [...] The sale of yabby pumps and live yabbies for bait is an important aspect of amateur angling in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

1961, T. S. Hailstone, W. Stephenson, “The Biology of Callianassa (Trypaea) australiensis Dana 1852 (Crustacea, Thalassinidea)”, in University of Queensland Papers: Department of Zoology, volume I, number 12, pages 260–261:

The specimens were collected with a yabby pump in Carenero lagoon, South coast of La Tortuga Island (10º53’N 65º14’W), Venezuela.

2005, I. Hernández-Ávila, C. Lira, G. Hernández, J. Bolaños, “Upogebia vasquezi Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae): First Record for Venezuela”, in Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, volume 44, number 2, page 119:

Penny placed the yabby pump on top of a hole in the sandflat and pulled back on the handle, sucking up mud and life.

2007, J. Woodford, chapter 12, in Whitecap, page 132:

The gobies Eutaeniichthys gilli and Gymnogobius scrobiculatus were collected from burrows of the mud shrimp Upogebia yokoyai at low tide by digging and using a yabby pump from April 2007 to September 2008 at Susaki Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.

2014, Henmi Y., Iwata Y., Itani G., “ヒモハゼとクボハゼによる干潮時のヨコヤアナジャコの巣穴利用 [Associations of the gobies Eutaeniichthys gilli and Gymnogobius scrobiculatus with burrows of the mud shrimp Upogebia yokoyai at low tide]”, in 日本ベントス学会誌 [Japanese Journal of Benthology], volume 69, page 69:

(Australia, biology) A large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.


trichodermial

(mycology) With roughly parallel chains of closely packed cells.


SCHMOOSE

SCHMOOSE (countable and uncountable, plural SCHMOOSEs)

SCHMOOSEs (plural)
Schmoose (alternative)
schmoose (alternative)

(biochemistry) A brain microprotein produced by mitochondria, malformed forms of which are thought to be involved in Alzheimer's


submargin

The ears are brownish, more or less rusty, the extreme edge whitish, particularly on the posterior border, the apical third externally with a submargin of black, expanding towards the tip into a broad blackish subapical spot.

1894, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 108:

Glumes slightly unequal […] ; florets slightly shorter than the longer glume; lemma ciliate on the margins or submargins in the upper part

2005, Katy Mallett, Flora of Australia (volume 44, part 2, page 137)

(entomology) An area parallel to a margin but slightly further in.


blending inheritance

(biology, historical) The obsolete theory that progeny inherits any characteristic as the average of the parents' values, so for example crossing a red and a white variety of flower would yield pink-flowered offspring.


synizetic

en-adj

synizetic (comparative more synizetic, superlative most synizetic)

more synizetic (comparative)
most synizetic (superlative)

(grammar, biology, rare) Resulting from synizesis.


nympho-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young woman, adolescent girl”).

der

(biology, medicine) nympha, nymphae (labia minora).


embolo-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from embolus.

(biology, medicine) embolus; embolic; embolism.


dithrycine

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Dithrycini</i>

... Artemisia (B. Merz, unpublished data); however, Ptiloedaspis does not share synapomorphies with other dithrycines, which induce stem galls on Artemisia.

(Can we date this quote?), Phylogenetic relationships, ecology and ecological genetics of cecidogeneous Tephritidae. Raman, A., Schaefer, C. W., Withers, T. M., eds: Biology, Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. Enfield, New Hampshire, USA:

(entomology) Any fly of the tribe Dithrycini.


anomine

(entomology) Any moth of the tribe Anomini.


ephemeroid

(ecology) Any kind of short-lived plant.


subumbellated

(botany) Synonym of subumbellate (“almost umbellate”)


flatnose

the flatnose catshark

the flatnose xenocongrid eel

(zoology) Designating various organisms that have a flat nose.


tetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone

(biochemistry) An endogenous neurosteroid, synthesized from the adrenal hormone deoxycorticosterone by the action of two enzymes, 5α-reductasetype I and 3α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.


walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus

en-noun

walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus (plural walleye epidermal hyperplasia viruses)

walleye epidermal hyperplasia viruses (plural)

From walleye + epidermal + hyperplasia + virus.

com

walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 1
walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 1

walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 2
walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 2

(virology) Either of two groups of epsilonretrovirus, walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 1 (WEHV-1) and walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 2 (WEHV-2).


clausilid

(malacology) Any member of the Clausiliidae family of terrestrial snails.


Elapid venoms mainly comprise peptides and proteins from seven families; secreted phospholipases A2 (PLA2s)^(32,33,34,35,36) and three-finger toxins (3FTxs)^(36,37,38,39) are often major constituents and have a dominant role in the action of the venom, […]

2022 June 10, Oliveira, A.L., Viegas, M.F., da Silva, S.L. et al., “The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential”, in Nature Reviews Chemistry, volume 6, →DOI, page 453:

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of three-finger toxin.


laminiplantation

(zoology, rare) The quality of being laminiplantar.


Peckhamian

From Peckham + -ian, after George and Elizabeth Peckham.

(zoology) Of or relating to aggressive mimicry.


aggressive mimicry

(zoology) A form of mimicry in which predators, parasites, or parasitoids share similar signals, using a harmless model, allowing them to avoid being correctly identified by their prey or host.


diprotodontoid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the vombatiform superfamily Diprotodontoidea.


quinohaemoprotein

From quino- + haemo- + protein.
Coined by B W Groen, M A van Kleef, and J A Duine in 1986 in https://doi.org/10.1042%2Fbj2340611

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins that have haem and quinone as cofactors


landolphia

(botany) Any of the plants of the genus Landolphia.


larvarium

Such a range of shelving, facing north, forms an excellent larvarium; the winds will blow about your larvæ and they will be reared in a state which closely approaches the natural one.

1943, Philip Bertram Murray Allan, Talking of Moths, page 318:

At the end of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:


legumelin

en-noun

legumelin (countable and uncountable, plural legumelins)

(biochemistry) An albumin found in the seeds of various leguminous plants.


lepidodendraceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Lepidodendraceae.


lestobiosis

(biology) The habit of certain insects of living within the nests of another species in order to steal food from their stores.


xenocongrid

The vomerine dentition in a single median series distinguishes it from these and all other xenocongrids […]

1939, Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, numbers 373-436:

The posterior nostril in xenocongrids lies immediately before the center of the eye, on the outside of the upper lip, or inside the confines of the mouth; in the muraenids, it nearly always lies above the eye.

1993, James E. Böhlke, Charles C. G. Chaplin, Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters, page 70:

(zoology) Any eel from the family Xenocongridae, the false morays (chlopsids).


otarine

Apart from having pinnae on the external ears, the otarine seals can at once be distinguished on land from phocids by their method of locomotion.

1972, David Edward Gaskin, Whales, Dolphins and Seals, page 153:

(zoology) Of or relating to the eared seals.


ICK

The composition of the venoms of the first three is dominated by short (3–9-kDa) disulfide-rich peptides that contain the inhibitor cysteine knot (ICK) motif, although heavier proteins, including enzymes, are also present. ICK peptides are structurally very stable and mainly target the nervous system, acting primarily on membrane channels or neuronal receptors^(3,4,5).

2022 June 10, Oliveira, A.L., Viegas, M.F., da Silva, S.L. et al., “The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential”, in Nature Reviews Chemistry, volume 6, →DOI, page 451:

inhibitor cystine knot
w:inhibitor cystine knot

(biochemistry) Initialism of inhibitor cystine knot.


(biochemistry) Abbreviation of phospholipase A2.


LAAO

Other toxins — namely snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs)^(34,36,40,41,42), snake venom serine proteases (SVSPs)^(34,36,43) and l-amino acid oxidases (LAAOs)^(34,44,45,46,47) — represent an average of 6% of elapid venom.

L-amino-acid oxidase
w:L-amino-acid oxidase

(biochemistry) Initialism of L-amino-acid oxidase.


SVMP

(biochemistry) Initialism of snake venom metalloproteinase.


SVSP

(biochemistry) Initialism of snake venom serine protease.


bone-crushing dog

bone-crushing dog (plural bone-crushing dogs)

Carnivore damage and age distribution of the bones of the rhinoceros Teleoceras suggest that the bone-crushing dog Osteoborus, or a related carnivore, significantly influenced the accumulation of some of the vertebrate fossils.

He also saw many bone splinters which appeared to have been worked by humans. (We now know that they were fractured by an extinct family of bone-crushing dogs)

2002, Donald R. Prothero, Robert M. Schoch, Associate Professor of Science and Mathematics Robert M Schoch, Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 36:

Bone-crushing dogs, which are only distantly related to living wolves and coyotes, possessed heavy skulls and jaws and large, broad teeth.

2010, Rex Buchanan, Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils, University Press of Kansas, page 150:

(zoology) Any of a subfamily (Borophaginae) of large extinct canids of North America, noted for powerful teeth and jaws.


nymotypical

The nymotypical form occurs in the high mountains of Europe: the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Carpathians and Balcan; the varietal forms distributed northward to Finland and eastwards to East Siberia.

1908, Adalbert Seitz, The Macrolepidoptera of the World, page 108:

(lepidopterology) The same as the first described form of a species.


rhizostomatid

Clipping of translingual Rhizostomatidae

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Rhizostomatidae</i>

(zoology) Any true jellyfish of the family Rhizostomatidae.


hirsutidin

Catharanthus roseus
Catharanthus roseus#Translingual

(botany, organic chemistry) An O-methylated anthocyanidin, belonging to the anthocyanins, found in Catharanthus roseus petals and calluses.


pyroanthocyanin

(botany, organic chemistry) A type of anthocyanin found in Monnina obtusifolia.


particoloured bat

en-noun

particoloured bat (plural particoloured bats)

(zoology, chiropterology) A species of vesper bat that lives in temperate Eurasia, eastwards over the Caucasus and Iran into Mongolia, northeast China, Korea, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.


selenophilic

en-adj

selenophilic (comparative more selenophilic, superlative most selenophilic)

more selenophilic (comparative)
most selenophilic (superlative)

In some cases, soil concentrations are such that selenophilic plants can accumulate selenium to toxic concentrations.

1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 931:

Nevertheless, the addition of a selenophilic trap is often beneficial as highlighted in a number of the examples in this section.

2015 October 26, Molecular Rearrangements in Organic Synthesis, Wiley, →ISBN, page 614:

(botany, chemistry) Tending to absorb selenium.


forest steppe

(ecology, geography) A temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.


LDH

en-noun

LDH (countable and uncountable, plural LDHs)

lactate dehydrogenase
lactate dehydrogenase#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of lactate dehydrogenase.


Nenets Herding Laika

Nenets Herding Laika (plural Nenets Herding Laikas)

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

(zoology, cynology) An aboriginal spitz landrace of dog originating from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in Russia.


co-feed

en-verb

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

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

The two ape bands went on to co-feed in the same tree, or forage alongside each other for different foods.

(intransitive, zoology) To feed together with a different taxon


mesophilia

From meso- + -philia. In the paraphilia sense, coined by psychologist Michael Seto in 2016.

(biology) A preference for moderate temperatures.


XLR

(genetics) Abbreviation of X-chromosome linked recessive.


AChE

Coordinate term: BuChE

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of acetylcholinesterase.


BuChE

Coordinate term: AChE

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of butyrylcholinesterase.


creatine monohydrate

(biochemistry) The most common form of creatine, which is similar or identical to endogenous creatine produced in the human body.


Prussian carp

en-noun

Prussian carp (plural Prussian carp or Prussian carps)

Prussian carp (plural)
Prussian carps (plural)

(ichthyology) A member of the family Cyprinidae, which includes other fish such as the common carp, goldfish, and the smaller minnows.


whitenose

(zoology) Designating various creatures with a white nose.


radiometric age

radiometric age (plural radiometric ages)

2001, Allen H. Andrews, Erica J. Burton, Kenneth H. Coale, Gregor M. Cailliet, Roy E. Crabtree, Radiometric age validation of Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus, Fishery Bulletin, Volume 99, Issue 3, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, page 394,
For older age groups and individual cores, annulus-derived age was higher than radiometric age by as much as 21.8 years and lower than radiometric age by as much as 23 years.

For additional radiometric ages and references to the radiometric ages in the table above see Dickinson, (1997), Wilson et al., (2005) and Tables A1–A6 in Hall, (2002).

2007, Clarence A. Hall Jr., Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and Its Native Plants, University of California Press, page 129:

Use is made of a smoothing spline fit on the two way plot between the composite standard scaling of the stages (Table 23.2) and radiometric ages.

2012, Felix. M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Mark D. Schmitz, Gabi M. Ogg, The Geologic Time Scale 2012, Elsevier, page 638:

(archaeology, paleontology, geology, geochronology) The age of a material as determined by radiometric dating.


subunequal

Suffruticose; ramuli subterete, glabrous; leaves unequal, elliptic-ovate; acuminate-acute, and subunequal at the base, coarsely crenate serrated; […]

1861, Nicol Alexander Dalzell, Alexander Gibson, The Bombay Flora, page 188:

(biology) Barely equal; approaching unequal.


headstarting

For example, headstarting programs are attempting to bolster wild populations of critically endangered Caribbean rock iguanas by raising baby iguanas in captivity and releasing them when they’ve grown large enough to avoid being eaten by invasive predators like cats and mongooses.

2022 October 24, Hannah Thomasy, “They May Have Love on Their Lizard Brains”, in The New York Times:

(biology) A conservation technique for endangered species, in which young animals are raised artificially and subsequently released into the wild.


non-fermenter

(microbiology) Any of a taxonomically heterogeneous group of bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonadota that cannot catabolize glucose, and are thus unable to ferment.


Missouri canary

Missouri canary (plural Missouri canaries)

(zoology, rare) A mule; a sterile hybrid of a donkey and a horse.


Blue Sucker

(ichthyology) A long-lived freshwater species of fish in the sucker family that is of conservation concern.


autocolony

This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual cells.

1914, Gilbert Morgan Smith, The Organization of the Colony in Certain Four-celled Coenobic Algae, page 1175:

This fact is of considerable interest as it shows how the autocolonies of certain of the Autosporaceæ may have arisen.

1916, George Stephen West, Algæ, page 219:

Autocolonies of 8 cells were occasional, and of 4 cells quite frequent.

1929, University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory, Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum, page 168:

(botany) A daughter colony formed inside a cell of a parent colony.


fushi tarazu

fushi tarazus (plural)
ftz (alternative)

Borrowed from Japanese 節足らず (fushi-tarazu, literally “segment-deficient”), in reference to the absence of parasegments when not expressed.

bor+

(biochemistry) A Drosophila pair-rule gene that is responsible for the development of even-numbered (i.e. half of the) parasegments.


meadow jumping mouse

en-noun

meadow jumping mouse (plural meadow jumping mice)

(zoology) A jumping mouse found in moist habitats throughout much of Canada and the northeastern United States, Zapus hudsonius.


CEBPB

CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein beta
w:CEBPB

(biochemistry) Initialism of CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein beta.


lygosomine

In both these studies, the lygosomine skinks examined had a diploid number of 2n = 30.

1979, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 6, number 3, page 609:

Not all of the wholly viviparous lygosomine genera are likely to represent independent origins of viviparity; some may have inherited viviparity from a live-bearing ancestor.

2004, D. R. Khanna, Biology of Reptiles, page 221:

The agamid Physignathus lesueurii is at least semi-aquatic as are four members of the Australian lygosomine skink genus Eulamprus (E. quoyii, E. leuraensis, E. kosciuskoi, E. tympanum).

2008, E. V. Balian, C. Lévêque, H. Segers, Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment, page 584:

(zoology) Any skink belonging to the subfamily Lygosominae.


gorilline

A very fragmentary canine tooth of a putative "gorilline” was reported by Cecchi and Pickford in 1989 from Nkondo, western Uganda, dating to perhaps 3.5 ma ( see Boaz, 1994 ).

1995, Noel Thomas Boaz, Linda D. Wolfe, Biological Anthropology: The State of the Science, page 36:

In this contribution we adopt a less radical solution: we lump all the great apes into the family Hominidae; within that grouping, we recognizes ^([sic]) three living subfamilies, the Ponginae (or “pongines”) for the orangutans, the Gorillinae (or “gorillines”) for the gorillas, and the Homininae (or "hominines") for both modern humans and chimpanzees.

2004, Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue, Assembling the Tree of Life, page 518:

Its dental traits strongly indicate that it is the earliest species of the subfamily Gorillinae, suggesting that the last common ancestor between hominines (chimpanzees and humans) and gorillines may have lived more than 10 million years ago, that is, 2 million years earlier than the previously believed date of divergence based on DNA molecular-clock calibrations.

2010, H. James Birx, 21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook:

(zoology) Any hominid in the proposed subfamily Gorillinae (corresponding to the tribus Gorillini).


shortia

(botany) Any of the subshrubs and perennial herbs of the genus Shortia.


sinningia

(botany) Any plant of the genus Sinningia.


passaloid

(entomology, rare) Any member of the Passaloidea superfamily of beetles.


pyorubin

Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa#Translingual

(biochemistry) A red pigment produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.


acteonoid

(malacology) Any member of the Acteonoidea superfamily of snails.


bullulate

en-adj

bullulate (comparative more bullulate, superlative most bullulate)

more bullulate (comparative)
most bullulate (superlative)


vlsE

(bacteriology, genetics) A gene coding for a lipoprotein (VlsE) in Borrelia mayonii.


VlsE

(bacteriology, biochemistry) A lipoprotein from Borrelia mayonii involved in Lyme disease.


DPV

duck plague virus
duck plague virus#English

(biology) Initialism of duck plague virus.


colymbosaurine

(paleontology) Any member of the Colymbosaurinae subfamily of plesiosaurs


secundly

[…] stem prostrate with a terminal tuft of secundly curved linear leaves […]

1894, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Orchideae to Cyperaceae, page 268:

(botany, zoology) In a secund arrangement.


(biochemistry) Abbreviation of formin-binding protein 1


fungus-growing ant

en-noun

fungus-growing ant (plural fungus-growing ants)

Fungus-growing ants (Attini) are in reality unique fungus-culturing insects.

1966 August 5, NEAL A. WEBER, “Fungus-Growing Ants: A symbiotic relationship exists between an insect and a plant, involving an effective culturing technique.”, in Science.org:

The fungus-growing ants are a New World group of > 200 species, all obligate symbionts with a fungus they use for food.

(Can we date this quote?), “Fungus growing ants”, in AntWiki:

(entomology) Any ant of the tribe Attini, which grow fungi in their ant colonies using food scraps, the fungi are then used to feed the colony.


Sahara pump theory

(biology, paleontology) A hypothesis that explains the manner in which flora and fauna migrated between Eurasia and Africa using a land bridge in the Levant region, based on the idea that there were periods of abundant rainfall lasting thousands of years in Africa and associated with a "wet-green Sahara" phase, during which larger lakes and more rivers existed.


pseudomorphine

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Relationships of pseudomorphines to other harpaline tribes are unsettled as stated by Deuve (1993: 98).

2012, Yves Bousquet, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, North of Mexico, page 66:

Known only from trap samples, nothing is known about their habits, although researchers suspect that they may be associated with ants or termites, like other pseudomorphines.

2023, Arthur V. Evans, The Lives of Beetles: A Natural History of Coleoptera, page 146:

(zoology) Any ground beetle of the tribe Pseudomorphini, within the family Carabidae.


heterotypic synonym

heterotypic synonym (plural heterotypic synonyms)

(botany, taxonomy) A synonym that comes into being when a taxon is reduced in status (reduced to synonymy) and becomes part of a different taxon.


calamiferous

en-adj

calamiferous (comparative more calamiferous, superlative most calamiferous)

more calamiferous (comparative)
most calamiferous (superlative)

From Latin calamus (“reed”) + -iferous. Compare New Latin calamifer, used in Botanical Latin and taxonomic names.

In the next Section our Author Discourses concerning Culmiferous or Calamiferous Plants[…]

1700, The History of the Works of the Learned, volume 2, number 8, page 509:

The thrifty farmer now puts on his rubber boots, and mows over his calamiferous grounds.

1879 August 14, Litchfield Enquirer, Litchfield, Connecticut, page 3:

It began to rain; we had lost our trail, but we plunged forward through the calamiferous swamps and dense bush, seeking a place to camp.

1899, George Clarke Musgrave, Under Three Flags in Cuba, Boston, page 202:

The watercourse in the Tarim basin is described in the following terms: "The river (Khotan-daria ?) runs northwards till it joins a confluent from the Tsung-ling (Onion range, in Sarikol), and then flows eastwards into the Pú-cháng-hai [蒲昌海] (lit. Calamiferous Lake), which is also called the Salt Marsh. This is over 300 li from the Yu gate and the Yang barrier, and is 300 li in length and breadth.

1903, Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet: Towards the Holy City of Lassa, volume 2, page 146:

Scape 200–300 mm high, 1.0–1.5 mm in diameter at the base, cylindrical, calamiferous, walls about 0.2 mm thick, densely thickened internally and externally with fibrous tissue, glabrous at the base but becoming increasingly pilose in the upper half with stalked, multicellular hairs with globular terminal glands dark red, exuding a sticky mucilage.

2001, W. D. Jackson, R. J. E. Wiltshire, “Historical taxonomy and a resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania”, in Australian Systematic Botany, volume 14, number 6, →DOI, page 954:

(rare, botany) Having or producing reeds.


caulirosulate

caulirosulate (comparative more caulirosulate, superlative most caulirosulate)

more caulirosulate (comparative)
most caulirosulate (superlative)

From New Latin; from caulis (“stem”) + rosa (“rose”).

(botany, of leaves and bracts) Arranged in rose-like clusters at the end of the stem.


telome

(biology) A terminal branch of a stem, thought to have evolved into the leaf, according to one theory of plant morphology.


tissual

(biology, archaic) Of or relating to tissue.


sexual method

(botany) A method of classification based mainly on the difference in the number and position of the stamens and pistils of plants.


tripledemic

What’s more, COVID-19 isn’t the only sickness going around, as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases are prevalent, creating a “tripledemic.”

2022 January 5, Janelle Randazza, Kaleb Brown, “Fight against the tripledemic with these KN95 masks for kids”, in USA Today, Money:

With few to no restrictions in place and travel and socializing back in full swing, an expected winter rise in Covid cases appears poised to collide with a resurgent influenza season, causing a "twindemic" — or even a "tripledemic," with a third pathogen, respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., in the mix.

2022 October 23, Apoorva Mandavilli, “A 'Tripledemic'? Flu, R.S.V. and Covid May Collide This Winter, Experts Say”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:

But experts told ABC News the country may now be facing the threat of a "tripledemic" as doctors see an early rise in other pediatric respiratory viruses, particularly respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

2022 October 26, Mary Kekatos, “Is the US facing a potential 'tripledemic' of flu, RSV and COVID-19?”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 2023-01-04:

Masking can feel like a thing of the past in the US, even in cities such as New York and Los Angeles that once embraced the precaution. But as healthcare facilities grapple with a "tripledemic" of respiratory viruses – with Covid, flu and RSV surging simultaneously – experts are once again urging the public to don face coverings.

2022 December 10, Matthew Cantor, “Masking could fight the 'tripledemic', experts say. Will anyone listen?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-12-28:

Even in the absence of a pandemic, an infection could take a serious toll on Addison, but this winter's uptick in the number of COVID, flu and respiratory syncytial viruses, or the “tripledemic,” has put families of children with chronic health conditions or compromised immunity on higher alert.

2023 January 29, Brinley Hineman, “‘Tripledemic’ keeps parents on alert: Even a common cold is serious for at-risk children”, in Newsday, page 6:

(virology, neologism) A combination of three pandemics (usually referring to Covid-19, influenza, and RSV).


OSL

(physics, geophysics, geology, paleontology, anthropology, archaeology) Initialism of optically stimulated luminescence.


caritoxin

(biochemistry) Either of two amino acid toxins produced by the sea anemone species, Actinia cari.


schizostely

(botany) The arrangement in which the single primitive stele breaks up into as many distinct strands as it possesses vascular bundles.


schizostelic

(botany) Exhibiting or relating to schizostely.


hairpin transfer

en-noun

hairpin transfer (plural hairpin transfers)

Because the terminal sequences are not perfect inverted repeats, hairpin transfer results in two end sequences that are related but the inverted complement of each other.

1999, Allan Granoff, Robert G. Webster, Encyclopedia of Virology:

Conclusive evidence that hairpin transfer does occur as hypothesized was provided by assays that employed a closed hairpin form of the viral ITR, which was constructed from the cloned AAV genome (Snyder et al., 1990).

2005, Jonathan Kerr, Susan Cotmore, Marshall E Bloom, Parvoviruses, page 194:

(genetics) Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.


calycule

(botany) Synonym of calyculus (“group of bracts resembling an outer calyx”)


biological big bang

biological Big Bang (alternative)
Biological Big Bang (alternative)

Brocks said the new study suggested the Ediacaran biota “already contained some of the creatures that gave rise to the [Cambrian] explosion, to the rise of modern animals”. The Cambrian explosion, also called the biological big bang, was a period about 538.8m years ago when almost all major animal groups started to appear in the fossil record.

2022 November 22, Donna Lu, “The real paleo diet: researchers find traces of world’s oldest meal in 550m-year-old fossil”, in The Guardian:

(biology) The Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).


peltogaster

(zoology) Any member of the genus Peltogaster.


splenosis

(biology) Formation of mini-spleens in other parts of the body, from the lodging of splenic tissue fragments in other regions, of limited splenic function.


zoeform

en-adj

zoeform (comparative more zoeform, superlative most zoeform)

more zoeform (comparative)
most zoeform (superlative)

How far the young lobster is zoeform, may be seen on a comparison of it with the figure of the Zoe, p.275.

1835, Magazine of Natural History, volume 8, page 483:

Crustacea.—Embryos are often dissimilar from the adult form. The most conspicuous of these is the larva (Zoe) of the Decapoda, and the active zoeform young of Cirripedia (barnacles) and Lernæacea (lerneans).

1874, Harrison Allen, Outlines of Comparative Anatomy and Medical Zoology, page 131:


limnobiotic

Coordinate term: halobiotic


multitocous

multitocous (comparative more multitocous, superlative most multitocous)

more multitocous (comparative)
most multitocous (superlative)

From Latin multi- + Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos).

(biology, rare) Giving birth to multiple young at one time; synonym of multiparous and polytocous.


larentiine

We report a larentiine species, Collix stellata Warren, for the first time from Korea.

2011 July 28, Sei-Woong Choi, “A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea”, in The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology:

The present study provides a first inventory of the primary type specimens of larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia.

2015 July 17, Olga Schmidt, “List of primary types of the larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia - a starting point for biodiversity assessment of the subfamily in the region”, in Biodivers Data Journal:

(lepidopterology, entomology) Any moth in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae.


japygoid

For example, there are 32 species endemic to California, but no japygoids have been reported from Nicaragua, El Salvador, or Belize in Central America, or from many states in the United States and Mexico.

1981, The Pearce-Sellards Series, numbers 33-46, page 1:

(zoology) Any hexapod of the superfamily Japygoidea.


semiburrowing

Some terrestrial forms are semiburrowing, whereas others are arboreal (tree dwelling).

2011, John P. Rafferty, Reptiles and Amphibians, page 241:


MRGN

en-noun

MRGN (countable and uncountable, plural MRGNs or MRGN)

(microbiology, medicine) Acronym of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterium: any of a group of bacteria responsible for serious infections.

MRGN

initialism or acronym for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria


shrump

I bend down to peek at the shrump Starwood identified. From the top it looks ordinary enough, but from the side, I can see a fruiting body is pushing out of the ground.

2023 March 19, Katharine Gammon, “Shroom boom: the hunt is on as California rains fuel a mushroom explosion”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-10:

(mycology slang) A pile of leaves with a mushroom underneath.


amphiesmenopteran

From translingual Amphiesmenoptera + -an.

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Amphiesmenoptera</i>

(entomology) Any insect of the taxon Amphiesmenoptera - including lepidopterans (butterflies and moths).


odontomach

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Odontomachus</i>

Their anthills and their environs were littered with the severed heads of giant odontomachs, which even spiders fear and respect.

2018 November 18, “Scientists have discovered the secret of ants who collect the ...”, in Planet Today:

In most ants, their jaws are thin sticks with which insects pick up food. But in others, odontomachs, widely distributed in hot regions of ...

2022 July 23, “VIDEO. Supersonic toothed ant jaw – Sciences et Avenir”, in GeekyNews, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

(myrmecology, entomology) Any ant of the genus Odontomachus.


harpaline

[…] some genera listed by Jeannel as selenophorines were shifted to the harpaline group, and vice versa […]

1959, The Coleopterists' Bulletin, volume 13, page 61:

The harpaline genus Chydaeus includes about 25 species […]

(zoology) Belonging to the taxonomic tribe Harpalini.


harpaline

In many ditomines and harpalines, the males possess four laterally extended tarsi, but both sexes climb on umbelliferous plants and other herbs with the same ease.

2000, Pietro Brandmayr, Natural History and Applied Ecology of Carabid Beetles, page 87:

(zoology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Harpalini.


symphily

(entomology) The condition of being a symphile.


protocratic

Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:

These shade-tolerant and relatively long-lived trees soon compete out the protocratic communities.

1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 9:

An example of the vegetation of this initial protocratic phase of the Holocene would be the subarctic birch–aspen woodland which existed adjacent to the retreating southern margin of the Scandinavian ice sheet.

2014, Neil Roberts, The Holocene: An Environmental History, page 141:

The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.

2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:

(ecology) The first stage of interglacial forest development (Pre-Temperate), characterized by light-demanding species and rapid changes in vegetation.


Homogocene

Coined by American ornithologist and ecologist Gordon Orians, apparently from homogenous + -cene.

coin

Coordinate term: Anthropocene

The new shrunken natural world of the Homogocene will have a depressed speciation rate curve that will cost it species diversity in direct proportion to its loss of area.

2001 March, Michael L. Rosenzweig, “The four questions: What does the introduction of exotic species do to diversity?”, in Evolutionary Ecology Research, volume 3, number 3, pages 361–367:

So, the Homogocene cannot be said to have begun with the Holocene. Instead, 1500 would appear to be a good year to choose for the beginning of the Homogocene.

2010, Youssuf Gherbawy, Kerstin Voigt, editors, Molecular Identification of Fungi, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 5:

(ecology) The current ecological era marked by anthropogenic biotic homogenization, having begun c. 1500 CE.


semihorny

(chiefly zoology) Somewhat or partially horny (hard or bony).


semisucculent

(botany) Somewhat or partially succulent.


blister lichen

From blister + lichen, from their appearance.

(lichenology) Any lichen in the genus Toninia.


coliadine

(lepidopterology, entomology) Any butterfly in the subfamily Coliadinae.


dynastine

(zoology) Any beetle in the subfamily Dynastinae, the rhinoceros beetles.


nature-positive

Observers expressed disappointment at the weaker-than-hoped-for language on consumption and pesticide use, both significant drivers of biodiversity loss. The term “nature positive”, which some scientists had said would be the biodiversity equivalent of “net zero”, did not appear in the agreement.

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

(ecology) A global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and achieve full nature recovery by 2050.


nature-positive

At the same time, the extent of our planetary emergency – of climate crisis, biodiversity loss and inequality – has become evident. As we rebuild our societies and economies, we are faced with a unique opportunity to build a nature-positive future that we must not let slip away.

2021 October 28, Frans Timmermans, Achim Steiner, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, “Net zero is not enough – we need to build a nature-positive future”, in The Guardian:

(ecology) Relating to theoretical achievement of the global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and to achieve full nature recovery by 2050.

(ecology) Of contributions towards the global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and to achieve full nature recovery by 2050.


nature-positive

(ecology) Of actions that contribute towards the global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and to achieve full nature recovery by 2050.