gekkonid

Non-gekkotans and non-gekkonid gekkotans were used as outgroups and/or in establishing calibrations for the timetree analysis ....

2013 January 8, Aaron M. Bauer et al., “A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications”, in Zootaxa, volume 3599, number 4, page 306:

(zoology) Any member of the family Gekkonidae, the largest family of geckos.


pygopodid

/ˈpaɪɡəʊˌpɒdɪd/

(zoology) Any member of the family Pygopodidae, the legless lizards.


penstemon

Simpleton, life should really be a piece of Entenmann's / Relationships strengthening, flower essence: penstemon

2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE:

Stalks of salvias and mint, artemisia and penstemon.

2009 June 12, Dwight Garner, “Living Off the Land, Surrounded by Asphalt”, in New York Times:

(botany) Any plant of the genus Penstemon, the beardtongues.


uricase

en-noun

uricase (countable and uncountable, plural uricases)

(biochemistry) urate oxidase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to 5-hydroxyisourate.


rheotaxis

rheotaxis (usually uncountable, plural rheotaxes)

(biology) movement in response to a current (of water or air)


Papuasia

(biogeography) An area centered on New Guidea, bound by the Lydekker Line on the west (thus including the Aru Islands) and extending through the Solomon Islands archipelago in the east.


phylloclade

(botany) A flattened stem, a type of cladode that has unlimited extension growth and resembles a leaf.


subangular

(geology, botany) Slightly angular; having rather blunt angles.


chebulic acid

Terminalia chebula
Terminalia chebula#Translingual

(biochemistry) A phenolic acid compound isolated from the ripe fruits of Terminalia chebula.


pileipellis

pileipellis (countable and uncountable, plural pileipelles)

(mycology) The uppermost layer of hyphae in the pileus of a fungal fruit body.


vasiform

en-adj

vasiform (comparative more vasiform, superlative most vasiform)

more vasiform (comparative)
most vasiform (superlative)

(biology) Having the form of a vessel or duct.

vasiform tissue


pennatula

en-noun

pennatula (plural pennatulas or pennatulae)

(zoology) Any of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a feather-like form; a sea pen.


kinetogenesis

From kineto- + genesis, coined by Edward Drinker Cope.

(biology, historical) The neo-Lamarckian doctrine or hypothesis that animal structures have been produced, directly or indirectly, by animal movements.


xenopid

Concerning this latter point, however, it should be recalled that the xenopid larvae are equally microphagous and yet their manicotto structure is essentially of the ranid type.

1961, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: Volume 137:

On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids.

1972, Zdeněk V. Špinar, Tertiary frogs from Central Europe:

(zoology) Any of the genus Xenopus of clawed frogs.


minicell

Both Dr. Hoffman’s method and the minicells, in different ways, revisit these old observations.

2009 June 29, Nicholas Wade, “New Cancer Treatment Shows Promise in Testing”, in New York Times:

(biology) An achromosomal cell resulting from aberrant cell division, containing RNA and protein but little or no chromosomal DNA.


antisepalous

(botany) Alternative form of antesepalous.


volvox

From translingual Volvox, from Latin volvō (“to roll”).

(microbiology) Any of the genus Volvox of chlorophytes.


dasyclad

(zoology) Any of the order Dasycladales of green algae.


receptaculitid

(zoology) A probably benthic marine calcareous dasyclad known only from fossils.


semiobscure

(zoology) Of the wings of insects: deeply tinged with brownish-grey, but semitransparent.


ichthyolite

(obsolete, paleontology) A fossil of a fish.


genus name

Holonyms: species name (the binomial unit), binominal name, binomial name

(taxonomy) The scientific name of a genus, which is always capitalized and italicized.


estratetraenol

For women, a commonly used compound is estratetraenol, a derivative of the sex hormone estradiol.

2009 July 30, Camille Sweeney, “Banking on a Chemical Reaction”, in New York Times:

(biochemistry) A derivative of the sex hormone estradiol.


onychectomy

A good example of the potential discrepancy between human and feline goals is onychectomy, or declawing.

2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 17:

(veterinary medicine) Surgically remove the distal phalange of each digit of the forefeet of a cat.


melanophilin

(genetics) A carrier protein that encodes a member of the exophilin subfamily of Rab effector proteins.


noncrossover

The 10 brown offspring constitute only one-half of the offspring produced by noncrossover maternal gametes. Therefore, we estimate that 10 of the white individuals were also produced by noncrossover maternal gametes.

2002, Susan L. Elrod, William D. Stansfield, Schaum's outline of theory and problems of genetics:


antiterminate

en-verb

antiterminate (third-person singular simple present antiterminates, present participle antiterminating, simple past and past participle antiterminated)

antiterminates (present singular third-person)
antiterminating (participle present)
antiterminated (participle past)
antiterminated (past)

(genetics) To override the termination of DNA transcription.


corydaline

en-noun

corydaline (usually uncountable, plural corydalines)

(biochemistry) A bioactive isoquinoline alkaloid.


corydaline

en-adj

corydaline (comparative more corydaline, superlative most corydaline)

more corydaline (comparative)
most corydaline (superlative)

(botany) Resembling the genus Corydalis.


antiacetylcholinesterase

(biochemistry) That inhibits acetylcholinesterase.


antiacetylcholinesterase

(biochemistry) Any substance that inhibits acetylcholinesterase.


eucyclic

(botany) Having a trimerous pentacyclic floral structure.


epifamily

(taxonomy) A rank between family and superfamily.


anaplerosis

en-noun

anaplerosis (countable and uncountable, plural anapleroses)

From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up”) + πλήρωσις (plḗrōsis), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to fill”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).

(biochemistry) An intermediate enzyme reaction that replaces a depleted vital compound.


primine

In the seed these membranes are called by various names, of which the most frequently used are spermoderm or testa for the primine; mesosperm, for the secondine; and endopleura for the other.

1835, John Lindley, A Key to Structural, Physiological, and Systematic Botany, Longman et al. (publishers), page 35:

(botany) The outermost integument of an ovule (if it has two)


myelopoiesis

/ˌmaɪələpɔɪˈiːsɪs/

(biology, broad definition) The production of the bone marrow and of all cells arising from it.

(biology, narrow definition) The regulated formation of myeloid cells.


PNP

PNP (countable and uncountable, plural PNPs)

purine nucleoside phosphorylase
w:purine nucleoside phosphorylase

(biochemistry) Initialism of purine nucleoside phosphorylase.


anticatabolite

(biochemistry) Any substance that inhibits catabolism


PEP

PEP (countable and uncountable, plural PEPs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of phosphoenolpyruvate.


precell

(biochemistry) A hypothetical ancestral entity percursing complete cells.


julaceous

en-adj

julaceous (comparative more julaceous, superlative most julaceous)

more julaceous (comparative)
most julaceous (superlative)


amentaceous

amentaceous (comparative more amentaceous, superlative most amentaceous)

more amentaceous (comparative)
most amentaceous (superlative)

The chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

(botany) Bearing, resembling, or consisting of an ament or aments.


jelerang

(zoology, archaic) A large squirrel of Java and Southern Asia.


dermochelyid

Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).

2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles:

(zoology) Any of the family Dermochelyidae of marine turtles.


dasyurine

dasyurine (comparative more dasyurine, superlative most dasyurine)

more dasyurine (comparative)
most dasyurine (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling or pertaining to the dasyures.


rypophagous

From Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) + -phagous.

rypophagous beetles


ERM

ERM protein family
ERM protein family#English

(biochemistry) Ellipsis of ERM protein family.


ERM

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of ezrin-radixin-moesin.


prelocalization

(biology) The original localization of structures in an unsegmented embryo that become specific organs in the adult


graff

(botany, archaic) Alternative form of graft.


graff

en-verb

graff (third-person singular simple present graffs, present participle graffing, simple past and past participle graffed)

graffs (present singular third-person)
graffing (participle present)
graffed (participle past)
graffed (past)

Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christian or good-Christian pears, for I never saw better Christians than are these good Papimans.

1653-1694, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of original by Francois Rabelais, Book IV:

For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold.

1823, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso, translation of original by Ludovico Ariosto:


renette

From Latin rēnes (“the kidneys, reins”) + -ette (“small”).

af

(nematology) A specialized excretory cell in some nematode worms.


islets of Langerhans

en-noun

islets of Langerhans pl (normally plural, singular islet of Langerhans)

Translating French îlots de Langerhans; named after Paul Langerhans, the German anatomist who discovered these regions in the pancreas.

Edward Sharpey-Schäfer determined that the substance necessary for carbohydrate metabolism was produced in the Islets of Langerhans, naming this new substance ‘insuline’ after the Latin insula (island).

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 545:

(anatomy, biology) Distinctive regions of tissue in the pancreas, which contain its endocrine cells.


disaccharidase

Lactase is a disaccharidase that breaks down lactose into glucose and galactose.

(biochemistry) Any of a class of glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that break down disaccharides into monosaccharides


propeptone

propeptone (countable and uncountable, plural propeptones)

(biochemistry) A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.


typolite

From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “impression”) + -lite.

der

(paleontology, obsolete, uncommon) A stone or fossil bearing impressions of plants and animals.


dyslysin

(biochemistry, dated) A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile.


dysteleology

(biology) The study of apparently functionless rudimentary organs in animals and plants.

(biology) The frustration of natural function, as for example where an insect obtains honey by puncturing a nectary instead of by the floral opening.


baculite

The shell of a baculite was quite simply straight—an unexpected throwback to the early days of cephalopods.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 89:

(paleontology) Any of the genus †Baculites of extinct cephalopod heteromorph ammonites.


var.

Some of these roses and other exotic spp. are the parents of our cultivated roses—tea roses, hybrid perpetuals, climbers, ramblers etc.—over 5000 vars. having been named.

1956, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Ròsa—Rose”, in Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs : A Handbook of the Woody Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, revised edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1992, page 146:

(botany, taxonomy) Abbreviation of variety.


superexpression

en-noun

superexpression (countable and uncountable, plural superexpressions)

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


ptychopariid

(paleontology) Any trilobite of the order Ptychopariida.


prestin

Coined in 2000 from the musical term presto (meaning fast) because of the speed of the protein.

(biochemistry) A protein in the hairs of the inner ear


chrysolaminarin

(biochemistry) A storage polysaccharide typically found in photosynthetic heterokonts.


homonomy

homonomy (countable and uncountable, plural homonomies)

(biology) The state of being homonomous.


homostyled

Several genera include both heterostyled (dimorphic or trimorphic forms) and homostyled species

1876, Charles Darwin, The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom:

(botany) Having only one form of pistils; said of the flowers of some plants.


hysterophyte

From New Latin hysterophȳtum, from Ancient Greek ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb, figuratively the earth”) + φῡτόν (phūtón, “plant”). By surface analysis, hystero- + -phyte.

der

(botany) A plant or fungus that lives on dead or living organic matter.


lardacein

(biochemistry) A protein found in tissues affected with amyloid degeneration. It is insoluble in nearly all reagents, is not acted upon by gastric juice, and is not readily subject to putrefaction.


larine

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the gull family, Laridae.


antimerism

(biology) The division of the body into antimeres.


antimeric

(biology) Of or pertaining to antimeres.


cyclol

(biochemistry) Any of a group of cyclic peptides proposed as a basis of rigid protein structures


rhizomatic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥιζωματικός (rhizōmatikós).

bor

(botany) Resembling or related to a rhizome.


santolina

(botany) Any of the genus Santolina of evergreen shrubs in the sunflower family.


bill hook

(ornithology) A sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.


sargasso

en-noun

sargasso (countable and uncountable, plural sargassos or sargassoes)

From Portuguese sargaço (“(originally) the Lisbon false sun-rose or woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum); (now) gulfweed, sargasso”), ultimately from Latin salicastrum (“kind of wild vine found in willow-thickets”), from salix (“plant of the genus Salix; willow”) + -astrum (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance). Salix is derived from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”). The English word is cognate with French sargasse, Spanish sargazo. The capitalized form of sense 2 (“a confused, tangled mass or situation”), Sargasso, is probably a reference to the Sargasso Sea.

der

Of Sargassos or Weedy Seas. [...] [T]he most remarkable of them all, is that in the North Atlantic. [Christopher] Columbus passed through it on his first voyage of discovery to America. […] The sargassos of the southern hemisphere are not so well marked as this, nor are they as rich in drift or floating matter.

1864, M[atthew] F[ontaine] Maury, “Book VI”, in Physical Geography for Schools and General Readers, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, →OCLC, § 225, pages 100–101:

[H]eld safe and sound, I'd find the South Equatorial at last, at last, and safe from all the Sargassoes, the Scillas and Charibs, I'd swoop beautifully and lightly, drifting with the sweet currents of the South down the edge of the Brazilian Highlands to the Waters of Peace.

1971, Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, August 1972, →ISBN, page 6:

Feverish eyes of mariners weatherbeaten in a thousand voyages, burning eyes of jailbirds yanked from Andalusian prisons and embarked by force: these eyes see no prophetic reflections of gold and silver in the foam of the waves, nor in the country and river birds that keep flying over the ships, nor in the green rushes and branches thick with shells that drift in the sargassos.

1985, Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire: Part One of a Trilogy, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN; quoted in Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnowe, “Columbus and Las Casas”, in Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, 2004, →ISBN, page 45:

Few storms trouble a sargasso region, and rain rarely falls there even during the spring seasons. These conditions help create massive beds of floating vegetation, dominated by kelps and a weed called sargassum. [...] Of all the regions of the open sea, sargassos are the ones with the highest biological density, and potentially the most dangerous.

[2004, Lee Hammock, “Open Sea”, in Into the Blue, [s.l.]: Bastion Press, →ISBN, page 44, column 1:

(biology, oceanography) A part of an ocean or sea characterized by floating masses of sargassos, like the Sargasso Sea.


retinula

en-noun

retinula (plural retinulas or retinulae)

(biology) One of the group of pigmented cells that surround the retinophorae of invertebrates.


retinaculum

From Latin retināculum, from retinēre (“hold back”).

(zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

(zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.

(botany) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.


rosetting

rosetting (usually uncountable, plural rosettings)

(biochemistry) A phenomenon where erythrocytes are arranged around a central cell to form a cluster that looks like a flower.


zygaenid

From translingual Zygaenidae, from Zygaena.

(zoology) Any member of the moth family Zygaenidae.


antiresistance

(biology) Countering the propensity of an organism (such as a fungus) to become resistant to something (such as a fungicide).

antirresistência

countering the propensity of an organism to become resistant


mesostatic

(biology, of successive vegetations) Growing in uniformally moist conditions


addressin

addressin (countable and uncountable, plural addressins)

(biochemistry) An extracellular protein of the endothelium of venules.

addressiini

an extracellular protein of the endothelium of venules


palpicorn

(zoology, archaic) One of the Palpicornia, an obsolete group of aquatic beetles with short club-shaped antennae and long maxillary palpi.


trisome

(cytology) A chromosome which is represented three times instead of the usual two.


desmin

desmin (countable and uncountable, plural desmins)

Possibly from Ancient Greek δέσμη (désmē, “bundle”) + -in

(biochemistry) A protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres.


lumbriciform

en-adj

lumbriciform (comparative more lumbriciform, superlative most lumbriciform)

more lumbriciform (comparative)
most lumbriciform (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.


cytocompatibility

en-noun

cytocompatibility (usually uncountable, plural cytocompatibilities)

(biology) The property of not being harmful to a cell; cytological compatibility.


unibranchiate

Some molluscs are unibranchiate.


PTH

parathyroid hormone
parathyroid hormone#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of parathyroid hormone.


profilin

profilin (countable and uncountable, plural profilins)

(biochemistry) An actin-binding protein involved in the dynamic turnover and restructuring of the actin cytoskeleton, found in all eukaryotic organisms in most cells.


crossfeed

en-verb

crossfeed (third-person singular simple present crossfeeds, present participle crossfeeding, simple past and past participle crossfed)

crossfeeds (present singular third-person)
crossfeeding (participle present)
crossfed (participle past)
crossfed (past)
cross-feed (alternative)
xfeed (alternative)

It is now recognized that crossfeeding does not occur with derivatives of the mouse L-cell line (such as A9) , nor with certain HeLa clones. However, crossfeeding does occur with other heteroploid mouse lines (3T3 and derivatives), hamster BHK-21 cells and derivatives, and diploid human fibroblasts.

1976, John W. Littlefield, Variation, Senescence, and Neoplasia in Cultured Somatic Cells, →ISBN:

How can the results of crossfeeding trials be used to sequence mutant strains of the bacteria Serratia marsescens in the biosynthetic pathway for the production of prodigiosis?

1985, Martha Robertson Taylor, Changing the meaning of experience:

The emergence of crossfeeding interactions has been observed in long- term evolution experiments on E. coli in chemostats with glucose as the limiting resource

2010, Michael P. H. Stumpf, Statistical and Evolutionary Analysis of Biological Networks, →ISBN, page 116:

(biology) To coexist on a single limiting resource where one strain or species grows on the primary resource and the second grows on the partially degraded resource excreted by the first.


crinite

en-adj

crinite (comparative more crinite, superlative most crinite)

more crinite (comparative)
most crinite (superlative)


subocular

By surface analysis, sub- + ocul- + -ar.

(zoology, especially of reptiles) One of the scales below the eyes.


arthroderm

(zoology, obsolete, rare) The exoskeleton of an arthropod.


corymbosely

en-adv

corymbosely (comparative more corymbosely, superlative most corymbosely)

more corymbosely (comparative)
most corymbosely (superlative)


cyclobranchiate

(zoology) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets do.


deuterozooid

In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

(biology) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations.


diplostemony

(botany) The condition of being diplostemonous.


entosthoblast

From Ancient Greek ἔντοσθεν (éntosthen, “from within”) (possibly due to association with superlatives in -ιστος (-istos)) + -blast.

der

1857-1862, Louis Agassiz, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America
when this [nucleolus] contains a still smaller body , this is called entosthoblast

(biology) The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.


fissilingual

en-adj

fissilingual (comparative more fissilingual, superlative most fissilingual)

more fissilingual (comparative)
most fissilingual (superlative)

From Latin fissus (p.p. of findere (“to split”)) + lingual.

fissilingual lizard


frondous

frondous (comparative more frondous, superlative most frondous)

more frondous (comparative)
most frondous (superlative)


gymnocyte

(biology) A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus.


hornwrack

en-noun

hornwrack (countable and uncountable, plural hornwracks)

For the time being the tide was […] burying the hornwracks, which were easily mistaken for seaweed but which really were tiny bryozoans, or moss animals.

2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 30:

(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra, especially species Flustra foliacea.


mariput

(zoology) A species of civet; Ictonyx striatus.


microphytal

microphytal earth

microphytal growth

(botany) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.


monopodial

A birch twig or a cornstalk is monopodial.

(botany) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis of growth; of or pertaining to a monopodium.


multicapsular

en-adj

multicapsular (comparative more multicapsular, superlative most multicapsular)

more multicapsular (comparative)
most multicapsular (superlative)

From multi- + capsular: compare French multicapsulaire.


oceloid

oceloid (comparative more oceloid, superlative most oceloid)

more oceloid (comparative)
most oceloid (superlative)

oceloid cat

oceloid leopard

(zoology, archaic) Resembling the ocelot.


ostreaceous

/ˌɒstɹiˈeɪʃəs/

From Latin ostrea (“an oyster”). See oyster.

the crustaceous or ostreaceous body

1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

(zoology) Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell.


pamprodactylous

(ornithology) Having forward-facing toes.


piceous

piceous (comparative more piceous, superlative most piceous)

more piceous (comparative)
most piceous (superlative)

From Latin piceus (“like pitch; pitch-black”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality). Piceus is derived from pix (“pitch, tar”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat; milk”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the sources of attributes). The English word is cognate with Italian piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”), Spanish piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”).

cog

piceous:

Piciroſtris. Oblong, black: ſilvery-ſilky: ſnout half way and legs piceous.

1806, Charles Linné [i.e., Carl Linnaeus], William Turton, A General System of Nature, through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, […] In Seven Volumes, volume II (Animal Kingdom), part I (Insects), London: Printed [by Dewick & Clarke] for Lackington, Allen, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 215:

The colour of the upper part is a mixture of yellowish-white and piceous disposed in dots, exactly resembling mosaic work, […]

1828 June 17, Thomas Bell, “VII. Description of a New Species of Agama, Brought from the Columbia River by Mr. [David] Douglass.”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XVI, London: Printed by Richard Taylor, […]; and by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […]; and William Wood, […], published 1833, →OCLC, pages 105–106:

Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and with five lines of piceous spots; […] Tibiæ piceous towards the tips; tarsi piceous.

1868 February 6, Andrew Murray, “On an Undescribed Light-giving Coleopterous Larva (Provisionally Named Astraptor illuminator)”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology, volume X, London: Sold at the [Linnean] Society [of London]’s apartments, […]; and by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, and Williams and Norgate, published 1870, →OCLC, paragraph 16, page 90:

Front and middle legs yellow, coxae black behind, femora piceous posteriorly; […]

1940 September, R. A. Cushman, A Review of the Parasitic Wasps of the Ichneumonid Genus Exenterus Hartig (United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication; no. 354), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 12:

Agabus elongatus […] Legs rufous; metafemur piceous.

1995, Anders N. Nilsson, Mogens Holmen, “Subfamily Colymbetinae”, in N. P. Kristensen, editor, The Aquatic Adephagia (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. Dytiscidae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica), volume 32, Leiden, New York, N.Y.: E[vert] J[an] Leiden, →ISBN, →ISSN, paragraph 95, page 110:

From the year of its establishment, darkness seemed to have found a home in Beet College. Dark pink for the brick buildings, dark green for the doorjambs and the benches, dark iron for the hinges, dark stone for Nathaniel's Tomb; darkness in the piceous roots of trees that broke through the earth like bones through skin.

2008, Roger Rosenblatt, chapter 1, in Beet: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ecco Press, →ISBN:

Gyrophaenia uteana Casey […] [H]ead piceous, pronotum dark rufo-testaceous to piceous; elytra reddish-brown with sutural region and posterior angles piceous, abdomen yellowish- or reddish-brown, apical portion often darker, piceous; […]

2018, Jan Klimaszewski et al., “Tribe Homalotini Heer, 1839”, in Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Eastern Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): A Glimpse of Megadiversity, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, paragraph 162, page 378:

(chiefly entomology) Resembling pitch in colour; a very dark brown.


pluteal

pluteal arms

pluteal larvae

pluteal stage

(zoology) Of or pertaining to a pluteus.


rhomboganoid

(zoology) A fish of the obsolete suborder Rhomboganoidei, roughly corresponding to the gars (Holostei).


supertuberation

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(botany) The production of young tubers from the old while still growing.


thickskin

(zoology) Applied to various creatures having a thick skin.


urochordal

urochordal animal

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.


uromere

(obsolete, zoology) Any of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.


V-moth

(zoology) A common grey European moth, Macaria wauaria, with a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each forewing.


wekau

(zoology) An extinct small New Zealand owl with short wings and long legs that lived chiefly on the ground (†Sceloglaux albifacies).


monosperm

(botany) A monospermous plant; a plant only having one seed.


siphunculated

Cephalopods may have very various forms , and may even be chambered and siphunculated; but , in this case , the chamber nearest the mouth of the shell is small , and incapable of lodging the viscera

1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals:


nepeta

1997 October 13, New York: Interior Design ′97, page 79,
NICE DIGS: Tomato tepees, nepeta, strawberries, and herbs in raised beds billow onto the gravel walk; a neat lattice camouflages a propane tank.

2006 Spring, Early Homes, page 42,
The property is now protected by deer fencing, but Nancy spent many years experimenting with plants that are deer resistant, such as lavender, nepeta (catmint), and peonies.

2007 May-June, Old House Interiors, page 103,
TOP. Mirror-image borders in Hampshire, with purple nepeta, carmine-red geraniums, and yellow thalictrum.

(botany) Any plant of the genus Nepeta of flowering plants, including catnip.


umbraculiferous

en-adj

umbraculiferous (comparative more umbraculiferous, superlative most umbraculiferous)

more umbraculiferous (comparative)
most umbraculiferous (superlative)

From Latin umbraculum (“umbrella”), diminutive of umbra (“shade”) + -ferous.

umbraculiferous crown

umbraculiferous tree

(botany) Bearing something like an open umbrella.


synallaxine

From Ancient Greek συναλλάσσω (sunallássō, “bring into contact”) + -ine.

der

(zoology) Having the outer and middle toes partially united; said of certain birds related to the creepers.


setigerous

en-adj

setigerous (comparative more setigerous, superlative most setigerous)

more setigerous (comparative)
most setigerous (superlative)

setigerous glands

a setigerous segment of an annelid

(botany) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae.


urostege

(zoology, archaic) One of the plates on the underside of a snake's tail.


neuropter

(zoology) A lacewing of the order Neuroptera


phocal

they wended their way westward to fields of blood and phocal carnage

1885, Gordon Stables, Wild Adventures round the Pole:


oliganthous

oliganthous inflorescence

oliganthous raceme


amygdalaceous

From Latin amygdala (“almond tree”) + -aceous.

(botany, dated) Akin to, or derived from, the almond.


hexapetalous

From hexa- + petalous. Compare French hexapétale.


longipennate

longipennate (comparative more longipennate, superlative most longipennate)

more longipennate (comparative)
most longipennate (superlative)

Having wings that, when folded, extend past the end of the tail.


rotundifolious

rotundifolious (comparative more rotundifolious, superlative most rotundifolious)

more rotundifolious (comparative)
most rotundifolious (superlative)

From Latin rotundus (“round”) + folium (“a leaf”).


sutural

a sutural dehiscence

sutural elevation

sutural fold

(botany, surgery) Of or pertaining to a suture


testudinarious

testudinarious (comparative more testudinarious, superlative most testudinarious)

more testudinarious (comparative)
most testudinarious (superlative)

But the mists had not managed to suck from them their testudinarious colours.

(zoology) Resembling or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise.


phyllophagous

(zoology) that feeds on leaves; leaf-eating


ramentaceous

ramentaceous (comparative more ramentaceous, superlative most ramentaceous)

more ramentaceous (comparative)
most ramentaceous (superlative)


muriform

muriform (comparative more muriform, superlative most muriform)

more muriform (comparative)
most muriform (superlative)

a muriform variety of cellular tissue

muriform spores

muriform cells


emasculator

(veterinary) A type of clamp used to crush the spermatic cord when castrating livestock.


monanthous

monanthous leaf

monanthous raceme


phyllopodous

(zoology, of a crustacean limb) flattened and flap-like


laticostate

laticostate (comparative more laticostate, superlative most laticostate)

more laticostate (comparative)
most laticostate (superlative)

From Latin latus (“broad”) + English costate.

However, plants from Europe have a laticostate seed surface, while those from Asia are observed to have two types of seed coats (laticostate and tenuicostate), […]

2009, S. B. Gontcharova, A. A. Gontcharov, V. V. Yakubov, K. Kondo, “Seed surface morphology in some representatives of the genus Rhodiola sect. Rhodiola (Crassulaceae) in the Russian Far East”, in Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants:

Seed micromorphology:—Seed coat is laticostate. Epidermal cells are elliptical to irregularly pentagonal. Cell walls are thickened mostly at the corners, the boundaries are raised […]

2018, B Özüdoğru, “Phylogenetic position, taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status of the rare and poorly-known Noccaea rosularis, the generic type of Masmenia …”, in Phytotaxa:

Populations in Torovicë and at the Fangul-pass certainly belong to the nominate form, although a part of the specimens in Torovicë are extremely widely-spaced (laticostate), and some […]

, Zoltán Fehér, Z. Erőss, A. Varga, Contributions to the knowledge of the Albanian Cochlostoma fauna

(especially botany, rare) Having broad ribs.


biocombinatorics

(biochemistry) The use of recombinational techniques to generate families of similar biological macromolecules


decursively

en-adv

decursively (comparative more decursively, superlative most decursively)

more decursively (comparative)
most decursively (superlative)


ulmaceous

(botany, relational) Of or relating to the family Ulmaceae of flowering plants, including the elm and zelkova.


operculiform

en-adj

operculiform (comparative more operculiform, superlative most operculiform)

more operculiform (comparative)
most operculiform (superlative)

From Latin operculum (“a cover”) + -form. Compare French operculiforme.

operculiform appendage

operculiform ring

(botany, zoology) Having the form of a lid or cover.


oppositipetalous

oppositipetalous stamens

[…] cells 5 oppositipetalous, subincomplete at apex; […]

1880, Henri Baillon, The Natural History of Plants, volume 6, page 43:


opercular

opercular bone

opercular cavity

opercular flap

opercular plate

opercular pouch

(anatomy, botany, zoology) relating to the operculum


triparted

(botany) Divided nearly to the base into three segments or lobes.


nematognath

Formed as nemato- + -gnath after the scientific Latin Nēmatognathī.

(zoology, archaic) catfish; one of the Nematognathi, now called Siluriformes.


basal cell

(cytology) A cell of the basal layer (stratum basale) of the epidermis.


ambulatorial

ambulatorial (comparative more ambulatorial, superlative most ambulatorial)

more ambulatorial (comparative)
most ambulatorial (superlative)

From Latin ambulator (“walker or wanderer”) + -ial.

suffix

Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build; the feet are larger and more ambulatorial, the wings are shorter and not so thin; the birds winnow the air in a steady course unlike the buoyant dashing flight of their relatives.

1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds:

(zoology) ambulatory; adapted for walking; gressorial


deutoplastic

(biology) deutoplasmic (pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm).


monophyllous

(archaic, botany) Having a single leaf, or a leaf consisting of only one piece.


oppositisepalous

oppositisepalous stamens


serratirostral

(archaic, ornithology) Having a serrated bill, like that of a toucan.


operculiferous

operculiferous lobe

operculiferous body


diphyllous

From Ancient Greek δίφυλλος (díphullos), from φύλλον (phúllon); compare French diphylle.


glossinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Glossinidae, including the tsetse fly.


notothenioid

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the perciform suborder Notothenioidei, the Antarctic icefish


geophilous

(botany) Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.


caltha

(botany) A plant of the genus Caltha; a marsh marigold.


anthotaxy

en-noun

anthotaxy (usually uncountable, plural anthotaxies)

From antho- (“flower”) + Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement, order”).

pre

(botany) The arrangement of flowers such as a cluster, inflorescence, or solitary flower; the relative position of flowers on a plant.


gymnocarpous

(botany) Having fruit that is either smooth or not adherent to the perianth

(mycology) Having the hymenium exposed while the spores are forming.


velella

(zoology) Any of the genus Velella of free-floating marine protozoans in family Porpitidae.

vélelle

a free-floating marine organism similar to a small jellyfish


lyencephalous

(zoology, obsolete) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the obsolete group Lyencephala; having the corpus callosum absent or rudimentary.


nematocalyx

(zoology) A kind of cup or calicle containing nematocysts, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae.


peristerion

From Late Latin peristerion, from Ancient Greek περιστέριον (peristérion).

Verbena officinalis
Verbena officinalis#Translingual

(botany) The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).


urogastric

(zoology) Behind the stomach; said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

urogastric lobe

(biology) Associated with both the urinary and digestive systems.


deplantation

en-noun

deplantation (usually uncountable, plural deplantations)


prosternum

(zoology) The ventral sclerite (plate) of the prothorax of an insect.


discolith

(biology) A kind of coccolith with an oval discoidal body, a thick strongly refracting rim and a thinner central portion.


loculate

(botany) Divided into loculi, cavities or compartments


delphinoid

en-adj

delphinoid (comparative more delphinoid, superlative most delphinoid)

more delphinoid (comparative)
most delphinoid (superlative)

From Latin delphinus (“a dolphin”) + -oid.

(zoology) Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin


umbraculiform

umbraculiform (comparative more umbraculiform, superlative most umbraculiform)

more umbraculiform (comparative)
most umbraculiform (superlative)

From Latin umbraculum (“anything that furnishes shade, a bower, umbrella”), diminutive of umbra (“a shade”) + -form.

der

umbraculiform appendage

umbraculiform corolla

umbraculiform plant

(dated, botany) Having the form of something that offers shade, such as a treetop or especially an umbrella.


natatorious

natatorious legs

(zoology, obsolete, rare) Adapted for swimming; natatory


unilabiate

a unilabiate corolla


unicapsular

(archaic, botany) Having only one capsule to each flower.


unifoliolate

The leaves of the orange tree are unifoliolate.


uropodal

uropodal exopod

uropodal plate

uropodal sympod


urosome

(zoology) The abdomen or postabdomen of an arthropod


graminifolious

en-adj

graminifolious (comparative more graminifolious, superlative most graminifolious)

more graminifolious (comparative)
most graminifolious (superlative)

From Latin gramen, graminis (“grass”) + folium (“leaf”).

(botany, archaic) Bearing leaves that resemble blades of grass.


malacostomous

malacostomous (comparative more malacostomous, superlative most malacostomous)

more malacostomous (comparative)
most malacostomous (superlative)

malacostomous fish

(zoology, archaic) Having soft jaws without teeth.


prosobranch

From French prosobranche, from Ancient Greek πρόσω (prósō, “forwards”) + βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”). By surface analysis, proso- + -branch.

(zoology) A gastropod with gills in front of the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group, Prosobranchia.


bicalcarate

the bicalcarate wing or leg of certain birds


-type

(biology) Used to form words referring to groups of organisms characterized by the presence of a specific feature


vitellogene

(archaic, zoology) A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in various flatworm species.


chalybeous

chalybeous (comparative more chalybeous, superlative most chalybeous)

more chalybeous (comparative)
most chalybeous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups, “steel”) + -ous.

(archaic, zoology) steel blue; of the colour of tempered steel.


sporification

en-noun

sporification (usually uncountable, plural sporifications)


pedipalpous

(zoology, archaic, rare) pedipalpal (pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps).


leucophyll

Fischer's observations confirmed Lyubimenko's opinion that protochlorophyll represents an oxidised form of chlorophyll arising as a by-product during synthesis. Lyubimenko assumed that the first stage of chlorophyll synthesis is oxidation of the chlorophyll precursor, i.e., the hypothetical leucophyll. [...]
The principal stages of initial chlorophyll biosynthesis are the condensation of pyrrole compounds with free alpha-positions, resulting in the formation of a more complex precursor of chlorophyll, i.e., a colorless leuco-compound corresponding to leucophyll. Oxidation of leucophyll leads to the formation of protochlorophyll.

1963, E. M. Senchenkova, “V. N. Lyubimenko's Studies of Chlorophyll and their Modern Development”, in Israel Program for Scientific Translations, transl., Life Phenomena: A Historical Survey, pages 134–135:

(biochemistry) A colourless substance which was hypothesised to be a precursor compound of chlorophyll.


carpogenic

en-adj

carpogenic (comparative more carpogenic, superlative most carpogenic)

more carpogenic (comparative)
most carpogenic (superlative)

carpogenic cell

carpogenic germination

(botany) Producing fruit, or causing fruit to develop.


ischiopodite

(zoology) The segment of a crustacean's limb that is attached to the ischium.


verriculate

verriculate (comparative more verriculate, superlative most verriculate)

more verriculate (comparative)
most verriculate (superlative)

beetles with verriculate markings

(zoology) Having verricules (thick tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches).


rotundate

rotundate (comparative more rotundate, superlative most rotundate)

more rotundate (comparative)
most rotundate (superlative)

(archaic, botany) Rounded, especially at the end or corners.


diphygenic

Of diphy- + -genic, from Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuḗs, “double”) and -γενής (-genḗs, “offspring”)

der

(zoology) Having two modes of embryonic development.


tristichous

tristichous leaves

tristichous alignment

tristichous phyllotaxis

(botany) Arranged in three vertical rows.


didactylous

(zoology) Having only two digits; two-toed.


chylaqueous

(obsolete, zoology) Consisting of chyle diluted with water; Pertaining to diluted digestive juices, especially those that circulate in organisms that do not have a highly organized digestive system.


heterodactylous

trogons are heterodactylous

heterodactylous legs

(zoology) Having the first and second toes turned backward


subtypical

en-adj

subtypical (comparative more subtypical, superlative most subtypical)

more subtypical (comparative)
most subtypical (superlative)

(zoology) Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.


ganoine

(zoology) A glassy, often multi-layered mineralized tissue that covers the scales, cranial bones and fin rays in some fish.


turioniferous

Asparagus is turioniferous.


endostoma

From endo- (“inside”) + Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).

af

(zoology) A plate that supports the labrum in certain crustacea.


lumbric

The next day, while at stool, the patient discharged a lumbrics followed by the expulsion of two more, during the day, without faecal discharge ; treatment continued. The third day, another lumbric was expelled; the fourth, two others, &c, in all, ten lumbrics.

1859 July, William Farell, “Santonine in Verminous Affections”, in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 15, page 472:

(zoology, obsolete) An intestinal parasitic worm.


steganopodous

From Ancient Greek στεγανός (steganós, “cover, roof”) + -podous.

der

(zoology, obsolete) Having all four toes webbed together (said of birds of the former suborder Steganopodes).


helianthoid

(zoology, obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea, an obsolete subdivision of zoophytes, certain sea anemones and similar species


metagastric

metagastric area

metagastric lobe

metagastric region

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.


monotrematous

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Monotremata or monotremes.


monotrematous

The anatomy of the olfactory organ of Belone belone differs clearly from so-called monotrematous olfactory organs.

2005, Klaus Reutter, Fish Chemosenses, page 23:

Three-spined sticklebacks, similar to their Spinachia cousins, are monotrematous, that is, each olfactory organ has only a single naris.

2006, Sara Ostlund-Nilsson, Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback, page 200:

(ichthyology) Of the olfactory organ of a fish, having a single opening from which water flows in and out.


triarticulate

triarticulate antenna

triarticulate palpi

triarticulate tarsus


diaheliotropic

(botany) Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism; having the dorsal surface of leaves facing towards the rays of light.


nucleiform

en-adj

nucleiform (comparative more nucleiform, superlative most nucleiform)

more nucleiform (comparative)
most nucleiform (superlative)


myceloid

myceloid (comparative more myceloid, superlative most myceloid)

more myceloid (comparative)
most myceloid (superlative)

myceloid filament

myceloid appendages

myceloid layer

(botany) Resembling or pertaining to mycelium.


septulate

septulate (comparative more septulate, superlative most septulate)

more septulate (comparative)
most septulate (superlative)

(botany) Having imperfect or spurious septa.


verticillaster

Latin verticillus (“a whirl”) + aster (“a star”).

(botany) A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint.


nemathecium

From Ancient Greek νῆμα (nêma, “thread”) (compare nemato-) + θήκη (thḗkē, “sheath”) + -ium.

(botany) A kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments that separate into tetraspores.


oppositifolious

an oppositifolious peduncle

(botany) Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem.


neuropodium

From neuro- + -podium, due to the nerve located on the ventral side of the parapodium.

(zoology) The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium


virgulate

(botany) Shaped like a little twig or rod.


vermiparous

vermiparous (comparative more vermiparous, superlative most vermiparous)

more vermiparous (comparative)
most vermiparous (superlative)

/vɜː(ɹ)ˈmɪpəɹəs/

From Latin vermis (“a worm”) + parere (“to bring forth”), + -ous.

vermiparous animals

1862, Richard Cresswell, Aristotle's History of Animals:

(zoology) Giving birth to worms or grubs, such as various insects.


venulose

venulose (comparative more venulose, superlative most venulose)

more venulose (comparative)
most venulose (superlative)

venulose leaves


anisopetalous

(botany) Having unequal, different petals.


biarticulate

biarticulate antenna

biarticulate muscle

biarticulate thorax

biarticulate setae

(chiefly zoology) Having, or consisting of, two joints.


lophobranchiate

(zoology, obsolete) Of or pertaining to the obsolete order of fish Lophobranchii, roughly corresponding to modern-day order Syngnathiformes.


hexapodous

(zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.


lithophagous

The ostrich is lithophagous.

(zoology) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, often as an aid to digestion.

(zoology) Eating, destroying, or burrowing into stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins.


panphotometric

(botany, of leaves) Adjusting position to absorb diffuse light, either avoiding direct sunlight or also absorbing it


amphigonous

amphigonous propagation

amphigonous transmission

(biology) Relating to, or originating from, both parents.


osphradium

(zoology, anatomy) a sensory organ in certain molluscs, whose main function is believed to test incoming water for silt and other possible food particles.


hornotine

(zoology) A yearling; a bird born in the current year.


bedsite

(zoology) The spot where an animal sleeps.


unigenous

From Latin unigena, from unus (“one”) + genere, gignere (“to beget”), + -ous.


curvicostate

curvicostate (comparative more curvicostate, superlative most curvicostate)

more curvicostate (comparative)
most curvicostate (superlative)


echinodermal

echinodermal debris

echinodermal larva

echinodermal skeleton

(zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.


campylospermous

From Ancient Greek καμπύλος (kampúlos, “curved”) + spermous.

der

The sweet cicely is campylospermous.

(botany, archaic) Having longitudinally curved grooves on its seeds


nomopelmous

From Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “division, distribution”) + πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”) + -ous.

Passerine birds are nomopelmous.

(zoology, archaic, rare) Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux.


branchiferous

/bɹæŋˈkɪfəɹəs/

From branchia + -ferous, or directly from New Latin branchiferus.

(zoology, archaic) Having gills; branchiate.


racemiferous

en-adj

racemiferous (comparative more racemiferous, superlative most racemiferous)

more racemiferous (comparative)
most racemiferous (superlative)

From Latin racemifer (“bearing clusters”), from racemus (“cluster”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French racémifère.


fructescence

en-noun

fructescence (countable and uncountable, plural fructescences)

From Latin fructus (“fruit”) + -escence.

Fructescence, or the fruiting season , is the time when vegetables scatter their ripe seeds

1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:

(botany) The maturing or ripening of fruit.


noctilucine

From Latin noctilūca (“firefly”) + -ine. Term coined by British scientist Thomas Lamb Phipson (1833–1908). It appeared first in his article On noctilucine, the phosphorescent principle of luminous animals, published in The chemical new, vol. 32, no. 832, on November 5, 1875.

(biochemistry) A nitrogenous substance in fireflies, glowworms and marine animals, once believed to be responsible for their luminescence.

noctilucine

substance once believed to be responsible for the bioluminescence


involucellate

en-adj

involucellate (comparative more involucellate, superlative most involucellate)

more involucellate (comparative)
most involucellate (superlative)

From involucel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).


organogeny

en-noun

organogeny (usually uncountable, plural organogenies)

Learned borrowing from German Organogenie, itself from organo- + -genie; equivalent to organo- (“biological organs”) + -geny (“origin”).

af

(historical, biology, theory of recapitulation) The study of the evolution of the forms of biological organs and systems of organs by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.


embryogeny

en-noun

embryogeny (countable and uncountable, plural embryogenies)

From embryo- + -geny, probably after French embryogénie.

In “A Carcass,” embryogeny is reversed. Death, forcing the beloved to imitate the animal's deconstruction, will make her surrender gender, identity, and coherence.


actinophorous

en-adj

actinophorous (comparative more actinophorous, superlative most actinophorous)

more actinophorous (comparative)
most actinophorous (superlative)

(biology) Having straight projecting spines


tectibranch

(obsolete, zoology) One of the former order Tectibranchiata of gastropods.


incumbently

en-adv

incumbently (comparative more incumbently, superlative most incumbently)

more incumbently (comparative)
most incumbently (superlative)

(especially botany) In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.


phycochrome

en-noun

phycochrome (countable and uncountable, plural phycochromes)

The purple-red or violet phycochromaceze contain phycochrome, which is composed of chlorophyll and a purple, but generally (not apparently different) blue modification of phycocyan, which easily turns into a verdigris-coloured substance.

1867, The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London, page 210:

It is quite possible that the writer has reckoned some of the filamentous species of the Schizomycetes under the head of Phormidium tenuissimum, since it is impossible to determine with certainty in all cases whether a filament less than one micromillimeter in thickness, contains phycochrome or not.

2012, T.D. Brock, Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures, page 49:

Ohad et al. (1980) have recently shown that allophycocyanin has identical photoresponses to the phycochromes, which suggests that allophycocyanin may be the true identity of the phycochromes.

2012, O. L. Lange, Physiological Plant Ecology I, page 264:

(botany) A bluish-green pigment in certain blue-green algae.


geminiflorous

From Latin geminus (“twin”) + flos, floris (“flower”).

geminiflorous helices

(botany) Having the flowers arranged in pairs.


vernicose

en-adj

vernicose (comparative more vernicose, superlative most vernicose)

more vernicose (comparative)
most vernicose (superlative)

(botany) Having a brilliantly polished surface, like some leaves.


parasital

parasital (comparative more parasital, superlative most parasital)

more parasital (comparative)
most parasital (superlative)

parasital chemicals


vexillary

From Latin vexillarius: compare French vexillaire.

(botany) Larger than the other (leaves, petals, etc.) and rising above them.


lophobranch

From Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest”) and βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”).

(zoology, obsolete) Any member of the obsolete order Lophobranchii of fishes, now roughly corresponding to order Syngnathiformes.


vertebro-

Holonyms: rachi-, spino-


epicranial

From epi- + cranial, or epicranium + -al.

(entomology) Of or relating to the epicranium of an insect's head.


filicoid

Learned borrowing from Latin filix (“fern”) + English -oid.

lbor

1846-1853, John Lindley, The Vegetable Kingdom
The manner in which the second generation arises from the first, varies much more in the Filicoids than in the Mosses


filicoid

en-adj

filicoid (comparative more filicoid, superlative most filicoid)

more filicoid (comparative)
most filicoid (superlative)

(botany) Resembling a fern, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.


PIIgG

(medicine, biology) Abbreviation of pre-immune immunoglobulin G.


pIgG

en-noun

pIgG (usually uncountable, plural pIgGs)

(medicine, biology) Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin G.


pIgM

(medicine, biology) Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin M.


PIgG

(medicine, biology) Abbreviation of plasma immunoglobulin G.


UIgG

(medicine, biology) Abbreviation of urine immunoglobulin G.


pIgA

(medicine, biology) Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin A.


corymbed

en-adj

corymbed (comparative more corymbed, superlative most corymbed)

more corymbed (comparative)
most corymbed (superlative)

corymbed flowers


neuropteral

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.


octopede

octopedes (plural)
octoped (alternative)
octopod (alternative)

From octo- + -pede. Piecewise doublet of octopus.

Spiders are octopedes.


sinupalliate

sinupalliate (comparative more sinupalliate, superlative most sinupalliate)

more sinupalliate (comparative)
most sinupalliate (superlative)

At the same time the posterior gape of the valves would lead one to expect a sinupalliate character.

1895, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales:

(zoology) In molluscs, having an indented pallial line or sinus.


sinupalliate

But even this new conception would not furnish the clew to the law of torsion as long as the hinge line is considered (as by Jackson) one radius of the angle of torsion; with Noetling's data a comparison of the valves of Nucula with any sinupalliate pelecypod valve shows, that though in both the axis of the hinge is parallel to the oro-anal axis, a torison^([sic]) of 90° of the valve of Nucula has taken place with reference to that of the sinupalliates.

1903, The American Geologist, volume 31, page 35:

Larger suspension feeders are also very abundant, such as the endobyssate bivalve Hoernesia with shell torsion and a thick umbo used as an anchor (McGHEE, 1978), as well as the deep-burrowing sinupalliate Pleuromya.

2012, G. Einsele, Cyclic and Event Stratification, page 277:

(zoology) A mollusc with an indented pallial line or sinus.


revolutive

revolutive (comparative more revolutive, superlative most revolutive)

more revolutive (comparative)
most revolutive (superlative)

(botany) Having the edges roll back spirally on each side during aestivation, as in rosemary.


ovulary

From ovule + -ary, earliest use found in John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist and horticulturist.

(botany) The structure that contains an ovule or ovules in a flowering plant.


ovulary

ovulary spores


bacillar

bacillar (comparative more bacillar, superlative most bacillar)

more bacillar (comparative)
most bacillar (superlative)

a bacillar infection


stomatiferous

stomatiferous (comparative more stomatiferous, superlative most stomatiferous)

more stomatiferous (comparative)
most stomatiferous (superlative)

stomatiferous band

stomatiferous surface


vespertilionine

(zoology) Any bat of the family Vespertilionidae or subfamily Vespertilioninae


browspot

(zoology) A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.


lobiped

lobiped (comparative more lobiped, superlative most lobiped)

more lobiped (comparative)
most lobiped (superlative)

Coots and grebes are lobiped.


epimeral

epimeral plate


skowitz

From the fish's name in the Nisqually subdialect of southern Lushootseed.


antidromous

(botany) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.


endophragmal

endophragmal skeleton

endophragmal system

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the endophragma.


monembryony

(botany) # Archaic spelling of monoembryony.


mycetoid

mycetoid (comparative more mycetoid, superlative most mycetoid)

more mycetoid (comparative)
most mycetoid (superlative)

From Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs) + -oid.

mycetoid ulcer


madoqua

(zoology, obsolete) A small Abyssinian antelope, Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana)


archegonial

archegonial base

archegonial branch

archegonial chamber


paramere

(zoology) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, such as a starfish


fenestrule

From Latin fenestrula (“a little window”), diminutive of fenestra (“a window”).

(zoology) One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.


notopodium

(zoology) The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium of an annelid.


keratophyte

/ˈkɛɹətəʊfaɪt/

From kerato- (“horn”) + -phyte (“plant”).

(zoology) Alternative spelling of ceratophyte.


foveolate

foveolate (comparative more foveolate, superlative most foveolate)

more foveolate (comparative)
most foveolate (superlative)

(zoology, botany) Having small pits or depressions, like the receptacle in some composite flowers.


gynantherous

(botany) Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.


sarcoblast

There is nothing improbable therefore in the assumption that the entire series in their earliest condition, that is to say when the chitinoid exudation of which the test is entirely composed makes its appearance around the sarcoblast, are identical in form .

1885 November, Surgeon-Major Wallich, “Critical Observations on Prof. Leidy's "Freshwater Rhizopods of North America," and Classification of the Rhizopods in general”, in Annals & Magazine of Natural History, page 332:

(zoology) A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods, thouth to play a role in nutrient storage or in the metabolism of the cell.


scaphium

Borrowed from Latin scaphium, from Ancient Greek σκάφιον (skáphion).

(botany) The carina or keel of papilionaceous flowers.


ichthin

(archaic, biochemistry) A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.


rhizophorous

rhizophorous (comparative more rhizophorous, superlative most rhizophorous)

more rhizophorous (comparative)
most rhizophorous (superlative)


thecodont

Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “case, chest”) + -odont.

uder

(paleontology, archaic) Any of the Thecodontia (a former group of archosaurs).


ectolecithal

ectolecithal ova

(biology) Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the centre of the egg.


unline

en-verb

unline (third-person singular simple present unlines, present participle unlining, simple past and past participle unlined)

unlines (present singular third-person)
unlining (participle present)
unlined (participle past)
unlined (past)

There is no instance of unlining which may not be as well explained by the theory of alternation.

1848, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany:

The name dédoublement of Duval, which has been translated deduplication, literally means unlining'; the original hypothesis being, that the organs in question unline, or tend to separate into two or more layers, each having the same structure.

1870, Asa Gray, Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, page 243:

The carpophore unlines itself at maturity, and the vittæ are wide and solitary in each furrow.

1881, Henri Baillon, The Natural History of Plants - Volume 7, page 105:

(botany) To undergo a (now debunked) process in which the tissue of a plant separates into identical layers.


lunulet

the lunulet on the wings of many insects

(zoology, archaic) A small crescent-shaped spot, found on some animals.


palmigrade

From Latin palma (“palm of the hand”) + -grade (“means of walking”).

af

palmigrade posture

palmigrade stance

palmigrade walking

(zoology) Putting the whole foot on the ground when walking, like some mammals do.


monopetalous

From mono- + petalous, after New Latin monopetalus.

The food of the bee is the nectar of flowers; a drop of syrup, lodged […] down the neck of a monopetalous glove.

1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:

(botany, now rare) Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.


reflorescence

en-noun

reflorescence (countable and uncountable, plural reflorescences)

From re- + florescence. Alternatively, directly from Latin reflorescens, present active participle of refloresco (“I flower anew”), from re- + floresco (“I flower”).

(botany) A new blossoming of a plant during the season.


gynobasic

gynobasic pattern

gynobasic style

(botany) Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase.


libellulid

(entomology) A dragonfly of the Libellulidae family.


amphiblastic

amphiblastic gastrulation

(biology) exhibiting both holoblastic and meroblastic features: a telolecithal ovum with complete cleavage.


gemmuliferous

en-adj

gemmuliferous (comparative more gemmuliferous, superlative most gemmuliferous)

more gemmuliferous (comparative)
most gemmuliferous (superlative)

gemmuliferous vesicles

(botany, archaic) Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.


carnification

en-noun

carnification (countable and uncountable, plural carnifications)

One grade of inflammatory irritation produces carnification or hepatization of the medullary tissue, another grade suppuration, and a still higher degree of inflammatory irritation produces gangrene of that tissue.

1866, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics, page 440:

The liver was not cirrhosed, as he had believed, but was in a state of carnification.

1873, Dr. Eames, “Carnification of the Liver--Peritonitis”, in The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume 56, page 64:

From this condition the marrow may return to its normal state, or the carnification may be the stage prior to and immediately preceding suppuration.

1887, Thomas Jones, Diseases of the bones, page 72:

Salt-secretion, water-storage, high osmotic pressure as well as branch and leaf carnification and shrinkage and other plants are very commonly distributed

2003, Xiaoling Pan, Ecosystems Dynamics, Ecosystem-society Interactions, and Remote Sensing Applications for Semi-arid and Arid Land, page 51:

Its deficiency causes sterility in males and carnification of vaginal epithelium in females.

2013, Venkataraman, Diagnostic Oral Medicine with the Point Access Scratch Code, page 750:

(medicine, botany) A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.


caducibranchiate

From Latin caducus (“falling”) (from cadere (“to fall”)) + English branchiate.

(obsolete, zoology) With temporary gills; applied to those amphibians (most amphibians do this) in which the gills do not remain in adult life, but generally turn into legs.


heterauxesis

From hetero- + Ancient Greek αὔξησις (aúxēsis). Compare auxesis.

af

(botany) unequal growth of a cell, or of part of a plant.


organoplastic

the organoplastic cells

(biology) Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants.


semination

en-noun

semination (countable and uncountable, plural seminations)

Latin seminatio: compare French sémination.

(botany) The natural dispersion of seeds.


parnassian

(entomology) A papilionid butterfly of the holarctic alpine genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae; an apollo butterfly.


parnassian

(entomology) Of, relating to, or designating papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae, consisting of the apollo butterflies.


reticularian

(zoology) Any of Reticularia, a division of rhizopods.


epigenesist

(biology) Someone who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.


inferobranchian

(zoology, obsolete) Any of the Inferobranchiata, a former suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, now mostly classified as Armina and Phyllidia.


amphipodous

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.


antheriform

en-adj

antheriform (comparative more antheriform, superlative most antheriform)

more antheriform (comparative)
most antheriform (superlative)

antheriform cell

antheriform filament

(archaic, botany) Shaped like an anther.


cordately

en-adv

cordately (comparative more cordately, superlative most cordately)

more cordately (comparative)
most cordately (superlative)

cordately stem-clasping

cordately orbicular


notobranchiate

(zoology, obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata, an obsolete subdivision of nudibranches having cerata on their back, roughly equivalent to suborder Cladobranchia.


bimuscular

Bivalve molluscs are bimuscular.


lamellibranchiate

(zoology) Having lamellar gills; relating to the lamellibranchs


lunular

en-adj

lunular (comparative more lunular, superlative most lunular)

more lunular (comparative)
most lunular (superlative)

lunular ring on an insect

lunular depression on mollusks

lunular spot on a butterfly

(archaic, botany, zoology) Having a shape like that of the new moon; crescent-shaped.


embryoplastic

embryoplastic cells

(biology, archaic) Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; embryogenetic.


wildering

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(botany) A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.


flosculous

flosculous (comparative more flosculous, superlative most flosculous)

more flosculous (comparative)
most flosculous (superlative)

(botany, obsolete) Consisting of florets.


gemmiferous

gemmiferous (comparative more gemmiferous, superlative most gemmiferous)

more gemmiferous (comparative)
most gemmiferous (superlative)

From Latin gemma (“bud”) + -ferous. Compare French gemmifère.

gemmiferous gametophyte


galagid

(zoology) Any galago in the family Galagidae.


medusiform

medusiform (comparative more medusiform, superlative most medusiform)

more medusiform (comparative)
most medusiform (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.


lateritious

lateritious (comparative more lateritious, superlative most lateritious)

more lateritious (comparative)
most lateritious (superlative)
latericious (alternative)

From Latin latericius, from later (“brick”).

lateritious sediment in urine

lateritious deposit

(medicine, biology, archaic) Of the reddish color of bricks.


autophagi

From auto- (“by oneself”) + Latin -phagus (“eater”, plural -phagī). The attested Ancient Greek αὐτοφάγος (autophágos) would have meant "self-devouring, autophagous".

(zoology, obsolete) Birds that are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as they are hatched.


hevea

Tire executives say that global demand for tires, which use as much as 70 percent of the world’s rubber supply, will expand as less developed nations industrialize, requiring roughly 21 million additional acres of hevea, the source of natural rubber, by 2024.

2015 August 18, Diane Cardwell, “Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S.”, in New York Times:

Hevea brasiliensis
Hevea brasiliensis#Translingual

(botany) Any of the genus Hevea of flowering plants in the spurge family, including the economically important rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis.


gemmification

en-noun

gemmification (usually uncountable, plural gemmifications)

From Latin gemma (“bud”) + -ficare (“in comparative) to make”). See -fy.

(archaic, biology) The production of a bud or gem.


trinervate

From Latin trinervatus, from tri- + nervus (“nerve”).

(botany, of a leaf) Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex.


interambulacral

interambulacral plate

interambulacral region

interambulacral joint

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.


peripetalous

peripetalous fasciole

(botany) Surrounding, or situated around, the petals.


orthospermous

But in regard to the differences both in the internal and external structure of the seeds, […] in the Umbelliferae these differences are of such apparent importance—the seeds being in some cases, according to Tausch, orthospermous in the exterior flowers and cœlospermous in the central flowers,—[…]

1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 146:

(botany) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants.


racemule

(botany, probably dated) A little raceme.


liguliflorous

liguliflorous head


tetrapetalous

(archaic, botany) Containing four distinct petals.


tetractinellid

From translingual Tetractinellida and Tetractinellidae.

bor

(zoology) Any sponge of the order Tetractinellida or family Tetractinellidae.


receptacular

the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower

receptacular bract

receptacular nectary

receptacular scalesyy

(botany) Pertaining to, or growing in, the receptacle.


nectostem

From necto- + Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma, “wreath”).

af

(zoology) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in siphonophores.


rostelliform

en-adj

rostelliform (comparative more rostelliform, superlative most rostelliform)

more rostelliform (comparative)
most rostelliform (superlative)

(entomology) Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.


rupicola

(ornithology) Any of several South American passerine birds, of the genus Rupicola, having bright plumage and a fan-shaped crest on the head.


monogastric

(zoology) Having a simple single-chambered stomach.


monogastric

(zoology) Any organism with a simple single-chambered stomach.


vaginula

en-noun

vaginula (plural vaginulas or vaginulae)

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīnula, diminutive of vagina (“sheath”).

In Sphagnum it is shaped somewhat like a button , having a very narrow neck, which is firmly embraced by the vaginula.

1837, The transactions of the Linnean Society of London, page 468:

The plant is distinctive in the reddish brown tomentum, the longly hairy vaginula and the erect or spreading peristome teeth (normally corticolous species have reflexed teeth and normally saxicolous species a ± glabrous vaginula).

1980, Anthony John Edwin Smith, The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland, page 483:

(botany) A little sheath, such as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.


monorganic

monorganic disease

monorganic disturbance

(archaic, biology, medicine) Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ or organ group.


whort

he consumed mechanically a number of slices of bread and whort jam.

1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood
I force my way; now climb, and now descend
O'er rocks, or bare or mossy, with wild foot
Crushing the purple whorts[…]

1793–1817 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Picture”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC:

(botany) The whortleberry, or bilberry (fruit).


frondlet

(botany) A distinct portion of a compound frond.


divaricator

The relative position of the adductor and divaricator impressions varies somewhat in different species of the genus, as we have already described; thus, in P. giganteus, P. longispinus, &c., the divaricators are situated immediately under and outside of the adductor, while in P. pustulosus, P. humerosus, &c., the adductor is located between the two divaricator impressions, as in the case of P. comoides.

1862, Thomas Davidson, William Herbert Dalton, A Monograph of the British Fossil Brachiopoda, page 277:

The interior of the ventral valve differs from the dorsal one by having its divaricator scars much narrower, and its occlusor impressions closer at the anterior extremity, and leaving only a very small space between them for the two little scars which Mr. Hancock thinks might belong to the anterior extremity of the dorsal adjustor.

1866, Palaeontographical Society - Volume 19, page 79:

Relaxation of the divaricator fibers and maximal contraction of the radial myofilaments, which put the medial basement membranes in tension, may cause medial bending in the hook supports and closing of the hook apparatus.

2012, Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research, page 688:

(zoology) One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle.


isostemony

(botany) The quality or state of being isostemonous.


pentacrinoid

(zoology) An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem.


endosporous

With the exception of three species belonging to the order Ceratiomyxales which bear spores externally and are termed exosporous, all other Myxomycetes are endosporous. The latter bear spores within sporophores.

2012, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(botany) Bearing spores contained in a case (a sporophore); applied to fungi or eukaryotes.


animalculism

Compare French animalculisme. By surface analysis, animalcule + -ism.

(biology, archaic) A theory seeking to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena in terms of animalcules.

(biology, archaic) The theory that the spermatozoon and not the ovum contains the whole of the embryo; spermism.

animalculismo

theory that the spermatozoon contains the whole of the embryo


anisophyllous

(botany) Having pairs of leaves different from one another, either in size or in shape.


purpurogenous

From Latin purpura (“purple”) + -genous.

the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye

(archaic, biology) Having the power to produce a purple colour.


uniflagellate

The zoospores are posteriorly uniflagellate and possess a prominent nuclear cap made up of a mass of ribonucleic acid.

1989, O.P. Sharma, Textbook of Fungi, page 70:


culiciform

en-adj

culiciform (comparative more culiciform, superlative most culiciform)

more culiciform (comparative)
most culiciform (superlative)

culiciform insect

culiciform mosquito


subimago

en-noun

subimago (plural subimagos or subimagoes or subimagines)

subimagos (plural)
subimagoes (plural)
subimagines (plural)

From sub- + imago, after German Subimago.

Subimago, Fem.—Dull piceous: antennæ black: abdomen more than twice the length of the thorax: setæ brownish testaceous, mutilated: legs dull testaceous; fore-legs brown: wings gray; veins black, not strongly marked.

1853, Francis Walker, Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, page 538:

The subimago (a winged, but usually sexually immature stage) in the life cycle of mayflies is unique among living insect orders. The Ephemeroptera have two winged-instars, the subimago and the adult (or imago).

1996, Richard W. Merritt, An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, page 126:

Subimagos emerge at the surface, fly to a support, molt immediately to the adult stage, live only a few hours, swarm, and mate shortly after ecdysis.

2009, James H. Thorp, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates:

Subimagines flutter away immediately and rest at protected sites near the stream for up to 2-3 days, until the molt to the very short-lived adult occurs.

2011, Rüdiger Wagner, Central European Stream Ecosystems: The Long Term Study of the Breitenbach:

(zoology) A stage in the development of certain insects, intermediate between pupa and imago, during which the insect can fly but must shed a skin before becoming mature.


turritelloid

en-adj

turritelloid (comparative more turritelloid, superlative most turritelloid)

more turritelloid (comparative)
most turritelloid (superlative)

(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas.


leprosity

en-noun

leprosity (countable and uncountable, plural leprosities)

From Middle English leprosite, from Medieval Latin leprositas (“state of being leprous, leprosy”) either directly or via French leprosite, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -itas (“-ity”).

der

(biology, of plants, now rare) Synonym of scaliness.


repagulum

Borrowed from Latin repagulum (“bolt, bar, restraint”).

bor

(zoology) A modified abortive egg that may be used to protect the other eggs from predation.


omostegite

From omo- (“shoulder”) + Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + -ite.

affix

Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">στέγος</i> (stégos, “roof”)

(zoology) The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.


subrotund

en-adj

subrotund (comparative more subrotund, superlative most subrotund)

more subrotund (comparative)
most subrotund (superlative)


diaheliotropism

(botany) A tendency of leaves or other plant organs to have their dorsal surface facing towards the rays of light.


trifarious

From Latin trifarius (“of three sorts or ways, threefold”). Compare bifarious.

der

(botany) Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, like the leaves of veratrum.


fruticulose

en-adj

fruticulose (comparative more fruticulose, superlative most fruticulose)

more fruticulose (comparative)
most fruticulose (superlative)

Diminutive from Latin fruticosus (“bushy”): compare French fruticuleux.

(botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub


urosacral

the urosacral vertebrae of birds

(zoology, anatomy, archaic) Of or pertaining to both caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column.


myomorph

(zoology) Any of the suborder Myomorpha of mouse-like rodents.


apheliotropism

(botany) the tendency to bend away from sunlight, as some plants do; negative phototropism


bosset

(zoology) A rudimentary antler of a young male deer.


obversely

en-adv

obversely (comparative more obversely, superlative most obversely)

more obversely (comparative)
most obversely (superlative)


isosporic

isosporic ferns

isosporic structure

isosporic cyanobacteria

(botany) Producing only one kind of spore.


epiderm

(anatomy, zoology, botany) The epidermis.


hydrophore

It is, in our opinion, unfortunate that the term "hydrophore" has come into general use for this rudimentary form of hydrotheca.

1907, Sydney John Hickson, Hydroid zoophytes, page 26:

Thus if Phylactothcca is to be regarded as a valid genus, it can only be, on the basis of Billard's definition, if the hydrophores are definitely not of the typical Halecium-form.

1938, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, page 314:

The very short hydrophore pedicel projects from a shelf-like process near the distal end of the internode, which is not enlarged where the hydrophore appears.

1946, Charles McLean Fraser, Distribution and Relationship in American Hydroids, page 276:

Internodes approximately uniform but becoming shorter distally, segments comparatively short, hydrophore distal, usually parallel with segment, not delimited by node.

2001, Peter Schuchert, Hydroids of Greenland and Iceland:

(zoology) A cup-like projection that terminates the pedicels of some hydroids.


calcivorous

en-adj

calcivorous (comparative more calcivorous, superlative most calcivorous)

more calcivorous (comparative)
most calcivorous (superlative)

(botany) Living on, and tending to erode, limestone.


heterœcism

Without entering upon the question generally, of whether most superstitions have not a strain, however meagre, of truth underlying them, this sentiment has not been without considerable influence in rendering us chary of accepting the heterœcism of Puccinia graminis.

1881, Charles B. Plowright, Grevillea, volume X, page 34:

(mycology) Development of different stages of the same growth on different host‐plants; production of the æcidiospores or conidia of a fungus on one host, and of its uredospores and teleutospores on another.


unicornous

unicornous beetles


gonidial

gonidial cell

gonidial layer

gonidial strata

(botany) Relating to, or containing, gonidia (cells).

a gonidial groove

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the gonidium (angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa).


bractlet

(botany) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that supports several flowers


interpetiolar

interpetiolar glands

interpetiolar stipules

interpetiolar ridges


schizogeny

(biology) Creation of cavities by separating out existing cells.


lysigeny

(biology) Creation of cavities by lysis.


schizogenesis

(botany) Alternative form of schizogeny.


lysigenous

(biology) Related to or formed by lysigeny.


tingid

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the family Tingidae, the lace bugs.


tingid

(entomology) Any of the family Tingidae, the lace bugs.


leaf node

intercalary meristem
intercalary meristem

(botany) One of the spots upon a stem where buds and intercalary meristems occur, usually marking the end of a season's growth.


botryoid

Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus, “cluster of grapes”) + -oid

derived

(botany) A determinate inflorescence, similar to a raceme, taking the form of flowers arranged alongside an axis.


hypogynous

(botany) Of a flower, having a superior ovary, attached directly to the receptacle like other floral parts.


tetraxile

(archaic, zoology, said of certain spicules of sponges) tetraxonal (having four branches diverging at right angles).


notorhizal

(botany) Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.


delundung

(zoology) An East Indian carnivorous mammal, Prionodon linsang, having spots and resembling the civet, but without scent pouches.


angiosporous

Some fungi are angiosporous.

(botany) Having spores contained in cells or thecae (sporangia).


margaritiferous

en-adj

margaritiferous (comparative more margaritiferous, superlative most margaritiferous)

more margaritiferous (comparative)
most margaritiferous (superlative)

from Latin margarītifer, from margarīta (“pearl”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French margaritifère.


morinda

(botany) Any of the genus Morinda of rubiaceous trees and shrubs.


amphistomous

Some entozoa are amphistomous.

They would even strip off the amphistomous worms which literally live in the stomachs of all cattle in this region, and, without more ado, put them raw into their mouths by the handful.

1875 April, “Miscellany: Food of the Bongos”, in Popular Science, volume 6, number 41, page 766:

In many a pylom occurs also at the aboral pole, so that the shell, perforated by a mouth at both poles of the principal axis, acquires an amphistomous character.

1889, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History - Volume 4, page 302:

Some shells of an amphistomous Rhizopod were observed from near Recess, W. Ireland, which probably pertained to this genus. The shells were chitinoid, yellow in colour, and each aperture was situated on a slight protuberance.

1901, Pamphlets on Protozoology (Kofoid Collection):

Arendt and coworkers propose that the blastopore in this species is amphistomous, giving rise to both mouth and anus.

2009, Daniel H. Shain, Annelids in Modern Biology, page 108:

Contrary to the view of Cable (1974), we do not consider larvae of this species as amphistomous.

2013, K. V. Galaktionov, A. Dobrovolskij, The Biology and Evolution of Trematodes, page 507:

(zoology) Having a sucker or opening at each extremity.

Adaxial and abaxial surfaces of three taxa of the Acutae group in the Pacific Northwest (C. aquatilis, C. lenticularis, and C. nebrascensis) are not differentiated (the amphistomous condition) .

1985, Systematic Botany Monographs, page 15:

For most amphistomous leaves, the correct value for g_(lw) is between those given by Equations 11.24 and 11.25 (Moreshet et al., 1968).

2012, Robert W. Pearcy, J.R. Ehleringer, Harold Mooney, Plant Physiological Ecology: Field methods and instrumentation:

Parkhurst et al. (1988) showed that gradients of more than 50 μbar CO₂ are common in amphistomous leaves of C₃ plants.

2012, Scaling Physiological Processes: Leaf to Globe, page 329329:

(botany) Having stomata on both surfaces of the leaf.


univalvular

(botany, zoology) Having only one valve.


ciliograde

From cilio- + -grade (“means of locomotion”). Compare French ciliograde.

(obsolete, zoology) Moving by means of cilia or similar organs, such as ctenophores do.


semiamplexicaul

(botany, of a leaf) Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half or partly round.


tetracoccous

(dated, botany) Having four cocci, or carpels.


budlet

We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.

(Can we date this quote?), Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:

As zooid, bud and budlet development is closely coordinated, the stage of a colony during its blastogenetic cycle is univocally defined and expressed by a formula of three numbers separated by slashes

2009, Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms:

(botany) A smaller or secondary bud, usually growing from a parent bud.


coactor

coactors (plural)
co-actor (alternative)

(biology) An organism that participates in coaction


gnathopodite

(zoology) Any leg-like appendage of a crustacean that is modified to serve as a jaw.


neurocentral

the neurocentral suture

(anatomy, zoology) Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra.


oxyurid

(zoology) Any of the order Oxyurida of nematode worms.


tipulary

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the tipulas.


rectovesical

(biology, medicine) Synonym of vesicorectal.


syncotyledonous

(botany) Having cotyledons joined together.


deltidium

en-noun

deltidium (plural deltidiums or deltidia)

Borrowed from New Latin deltidium. By surface analysis, delta + -idium.

(conchology) The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.


leucosoid

en-adj

leucosoid (comparative more leucosoid, superlative most leucosoid)

more leucosoid (comparative)
most leucosoid (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling or pertaining to the Leucosiidae, a family of marine crabs, and possibly the Leucosioidea (superfamily) too.


glumaceous

glumaceous (comparative more glumaceous, superlative most glumaceous)

more glumaceous (comparative)
most glumaceous (superlative)

Compare French glumancé. See glume and -aceous.

glumaceous bracts

glumaceous perianth

glumaceous valves

(botany, archaic) Having or consisting of glumes.


nitter

[The bots] were hatched, into (what is called in the country) a horse-bee or nitter.

1809, Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and Natural History, volume 12, page 124:

The last three species are the nitters so well known in this country; particularly the leg and throat nitters. It is the received opinion that the nits on the legs of horses, are taken into the mouth of the horse, conveyed into the intestines, and at length become the bot larva.

1826, Amos Eaton, Zoological Text-book Comprising Cuvier's Four Grand Divisions of Animals, page 226:

If the "throat nitter" (Œ veterinus) is the true bot however, […] it must be evident that the remedy proposed […] is at least doubtful […]

(zoology, archaic) A louse that deposits nits on horses.


osseter

From Russian осётр (osjótr, “sturgeon”).

(zoology) Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, the Russian sturgeon.


pintailed

(zoology) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest.


meleagrine

Having disposed of such records as we have of the extinct ancestors of the American turkeys — the so-to-speak meleagrine records — we can now pass to what is, comparatively speaking, the modern history of these famous birds, although some of this history is already several centuries old.

1914, Edward A. McIlhenny, The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting, Doubleday, page 39:

To use the district court's meleagrine analogy, one may add an additional step to the recipe: "continuing to cook the turkey until the skin is burned to a crisp."

2003, United States Patents Quarterly, volume 65, page 1968:

The sad incident with the turkeys is hardly the first case of an improper response to wild animals that have wandered out of their natural habitat. […] Perhaps this aquiline newspaper would like to memorialize its late meleagrine friends by publishing posters or essays from Berkshire schoolchildren and scout troops.

11 October 2005, “Henpecking is not the solution”, in The Berkshire Eagle:

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris, including turkeys.


distractile

distractile (comparative more distractile, superlative most distractile)

more distractile (comparative)
most distractile (superlative)

(botany) Tending or serving to draw apart.


arboviral

(pathology, virology) Of, pertaining to, or caused by an arbovirus.

arboviral

pertaining to or caused by the arbovirus


monadiform

monadiform (comparative more monadiform, superlative most monadiform)

more monadiform (comparative)
most monadiform (superlative)

monadiform young

(biology) Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm.


anisostemonous

From aniso- + Ancient Greek στήμων (stḗmōn, “warp”) + -ous.

af

(botany) Having stamens different in number from the petals.


hyponasty

(botany) an upward bending of leaves or other plant parts, caused by increased growth on their lower surface

hipeanastacht

botany: an upward bending of leaves or other plant parts, caused by increased growth on their lower surface


introflexed

en-adj

introflexed (comparative more introflexed, superlative most introflexed)

more introflexed (comparative)
most introflexed (superlative)

(botany, archaic) Flexed or bent inward.


gynander

(obsolete, botany) A plant belonging to the obsolete class Gynandria, having the stamens inserted in the pistil.


fissiparism

(biology) fission (splitting to form two daughter cells.)


guttifer

From Latin gutta (“drop”) + ferre (“to bear”).

(botany, archaic) A plant that exudes gum or resin, of the family of trees and shrubs Guttiferae, now Clusiaceae


oosporangium

oosporangia (plural)
oösporangium (alternative)

(botany) A case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores.


antenniferous

/æntəˈnɪfəɹəs/

antenniferous tubercles


monostichous

The flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae are monostichous.

monostichous leaf blades

(botany) Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis.


oostegite

/əʊˈɒstɪd͡ʒaɪt/

Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión, “egg”) + στέγη (stégē, “roof”) + -ite

(zoology) One of the plates which, in some crustaceans, enclose a cavity in which the eggs are hatched.


biflabellate

biflabellate leaves/antennae

(botany, zoology) flabellate on both sides


episepalous

(botany) Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.


serrula

Borrowed from Latin serrula (“a little saw”).

(zoology) A kind of tooth found in spiders.

(zoology) One of the serrated appendages of the throat of the mudfish.


excentral

excentral (comparative more excentral, superlative most excentral)

more excentral (comparative)
most excentral (superlative)

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anthracic

anthracic blood

anthracic disease

anthracic treatment

(microbiology) Of or relating to anthrax.


embryoniform

embryoniform (comparative more embryoniform, superlative most embryoniform)

more embryoniform (comparative)
most embryoniform (superlative)

From Latin embryō (stem embryōn-) + -iform.


swellfish

en-noun

swellfish (plural swellfishes or swellfish)

(zoology) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, such as the pufferfish.


hypocraterimorphous

en-adj

hypocraterimorphous (comparative more hypocraterimorphous, superlative most hypocraterimorphous)

more hypocraterimorphous (comparative)
most hypocraterimorphous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek ὑποκρατήριον (hupokratḗrion, “stand for a mixing jar”) (from ὑπο- (hupo-) + κρατήρ (kratḗr) + -ιον (-ion)) + -morphous.

der

ὑποκρατήριον

(botany) Shaped like a salver; having a slender tube that sharply expands into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.


bracted

en-adj

bracted (comparative more bracted, superlative most bracted)

more bracted (comparative)
most bracted (superlative)

A Verticil or Whirl may be[…]Naked; that is without involucre, bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred

1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:


laticiferous

From Latin latex, laticis (“a liquid”) + -ferous.

laticiferous duct

laticiferous tube

laticiferous vessels

(botany) Containing latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.


tricellular

трёхкле́точный

(biology) composed of three cells; having three cells


tabularium

The unusually long minor septa and the restricted tabularia are features that I have not seen in any other species of Prismatophyllum.

1940 January, Erwin C. Stumm, “Upper Devonian Rugose Corals of the Nevada Limestone”, in Journal of Paleontology, volume 14, number 1, page 64, column 1:

Tabulae are transverse plates which may be flat, convex or concave. They usually occupy a central space or tabularium, and if there is an axial complex they join with it. […] Dissepiments, the small plates usually found towards the edge of the corallum, lie peripheral to the tabularium and like the tabulae are constructed of fibro-normal tissue.

1979, E[uan] N[eilson] K[err] Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, London, Boston, Mass., Sydney, N.S.W.: George Allen & Unwin, published 1983, →ISBN, page 74, columns 1–2:

If further investigation shows that clinotabulae are absent from the Geyerophyllidae and biform tabularia are developed, then the Geyerophyllidae should be placed in synonymy with the Petalaxidae.

2007, Jerzy Fedorowski, E. Wayne Bamber, Calvin H. Stevens, Lower Permian Colonial Rugose Corals, Western and Northwestern Pangaea: Taxonomy and Distribution, Ottawa, Ont.: NRC Research Press, →ISBN, page 149, column 1:

(zoology) A central calicle of a coral or hydroid.


lobeliaceous

(botany, dated) Of or pertaining to the former plant family Lobeliaceae (now subfamily Lobelioideae in family Campanulaceae), including the lobelia.


spermophytic

(botany) seedbearing (capable of producing seeds).


antholite

He considers this Antholite from the coal to be "the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,", p. 20.

1858, Charles Lyell, “Supplement to the Fifth Edition of a Manual of Elementary Geology”, in The British Review, volume 28:

Göppert , in his Permian Flora , figures an Antholite (pl. xxi., fig. 1-3), which he considers to be teh inflorescence of Nöggerathia, a genus placed by him among the monocotyledons; while Ettingshausen, on the other hand, believes teh forms he found in the Coal-Measures at Stradonitz to be the fruits of Calamites ("Steinkohlenflora Stradonitz," pl. v. fig. 1-3).

1872 February, William Carruthers, “Notes on some Fossil Plants”, in Geological Magazine, volume 9, page 53:

It is not, as you have perhaps surmised, a work of sculpture, but it is an antholite, or fossil blossom, brought, with others of the same kind, from the world to which I am native.

1948, Clark Ashton Smith ·, Genius Loci, and Other Tales, page 65:

(paleontology) A fossil plant resembling a petrified flower.


gymnocytode

The gymnocytode invests itself with a membrane, and is thus converted into a leptocytode

(biology) A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus.


interaxillary

/ˌɪntəɹækˈsɪləɹi/

interaxillary stipules

interaxillary region

interaxillary fold

(botany) Situated within or between the axils of leaves.


nautilite

(obsolete, paleontology) A fossil nautilus.


veinal

He supplemented the already-satisfying mixture with his secret touch […], which was to employ a sprinkling of Cobalt Blue, this simulating the depleted veinal blood that circulated just below the human epidermis.

2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 56:

(now chiefly botany) Pertaining to or contained in veins, especially the veins of a leaf.


monochlamydeous

From mono- + Ancient Greek χλαμύδος (khlamúdos, “mantle, cloak”) + -ous.

der

(botany, archaic) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.


rigidulous

en-adj

rigidulous (comparative more rigidulous, superlative most rigidulous)

more rigidulous (comparative)
most rigidulous (superlative)

a rigidulous bristle

rigidulous hairs