ANAPHASIC | • anaphasic adj. (Cytology) Relating to the anaphase. • ANAPHASIC adj. relating to the anaphase, the stage of meiosis in which daughter chromosomes move towards the nuclear spindle. |
ANAPLASIA | • anaplasia n. (Biology) A reversion of differentiation in cells that is characteristic of malignancy in tumours. • ANAPLASIA n. reversion of plant or animal cells to a simpler form. |
ANTIPAPAL | • antipapal adj. (Roman Catholicism) characterized by opposition to the pope. • antipapal adj. (Roman Catholicism) of or relating to an antipope. • ANTIPAPAL adj. opposed to the pope or to popery. |
APIARIANS | • apiarians n. Plural of apiarian. • APIARIAN n. a member of the bee family. |
APIMANIAS | • APIMANIA n. an excessive interest in bees. |
APLANATIC | • aplanatic adj. (Optics, of an optical system) Free from, or corrected for, spherical aberration and chromatic aberration. • APLANATIC adj. of a lens, free of spherical aberration. |
PALMARIAN | • palmarian adj. (Archaic, formal) palmary; superior. • PALMARIAN adj. worthy of the ceremonial palm; preeminent, also PALMARY. |
PANCRATIA | • PANCRATIUM n. an athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling. |
PARANOIAC | • paranoiac adj. Pertaining to, or exhibiting, paranoia. • paranoiac n. Somebody who has paranoia, a paranoid person. • PARANOIAC adj. suffering from paranoia. |
PARANOIAS | • paranoias n. Plural of paranoia. • PARANOIA n. a mental disorder, also PARANOEA. |
PLANARIAN | • planarian n. Any of various flatworms of the order Tricladida living in marine, freshwater, or terrestrial environments. • PLANARIAN n. a kind of aquatic flatworm, also PLANARIA. |
PLANARIAS | • PLANARIA n. a kind of aquatic flatworm, also PLANARIAN. |
RAPHANIAS | • raphanias n. Plural of raphania. • RAPHANIA n. (Greek) a form of ergotism, attributed by Linnaeus to wild radish. |
SAPONARIA | • Saponaria prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Caryophyllaceae – the soapworts. • SAPONARIA n. a genus of flowers, aka soapwort. |
SPANAEMIA | • spanaemia n. (Medicine, archaic) A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles… • SPANAEMIA n. a deficiency of red corpuscles in the blood. |
SPINARAMA | • spinarama n. Alternative form of spinorama. • SPINARAMA n. (Canadian) an evasive move, especially in hockey, consisting of an abrupt 360-degree turn. |
VANASPATI | • vanaspati n. (Botany) Any plant that bears fruits but no evident flowers. • Vanaspati prop.n. (Music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the fourth melakarta rāgam of the 72 melakarta rāgams… • VANASPATI n. (Sanskrit) a hydrogenated vegetable fat used as a butter substitute. |
VIPASSANA | • vipassana n. (Buddhism) Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence… • VIPASSANA n. (Sanskrit) meditative practice in Buddhism, aimed at obtaining a true metaphysical picture of reality, which means dissolving the stable categories of substance and self in favour of the evanescent. |