EMBRYOPHYTE | • embryophyte n. (Botany) Any member of the subkingdom Embryophyta, which includes most land plants. • EMBRYOPHYTE n. any green photosynthetic organism which begins the development of the sporophyte generation within the archegonium. |
EMBRYOPHYTES | • embryophytes n. Plural of embryophyte. • EMBRYOPHYTE n. any green photosynthetic organism which begins the development of the sporophyte generation within the archegonium. |
HEMICRYPTOPHYTE | • hemicryptophyte n. (Botany) Any plant whose buds rest on the surface, being protected in various ways. • HEMICRYPTOPHYTE n. any perennial plant that bears its overwintering buds at soil level, where they are often partly covered by surface debris. |
HYPERENDEMICITY | • hyperendemicity n. The quality of being hyperendemic. |
HYPERFEMININITY | • hyperfemininity n. The condition of being extremely feminine; excessive femininity. |
HYPERGLYCAEMIA | • hyperglycaemia n. Alternative spelling of hyperglycemia. • hyperglycæmia n. Obsolete form of hyperglycemia. • HYPERGLYCAEMIA n. an excess of sugar in the blood, also HYPERGLYCEMIA. |
HYPERGLYCAEMIAS | • hyperglycaemias n. Plural of hyperglycaemia. • HYPERGLYCAEMIA n. an excess of sugar in the blood, also HYPERGLYCEMIA. |
HYPERGLYCAEMIC | • hyperglycaemic adj. Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic. • hyperglycæmic adj. Obsolete form of hyperglycemic. • HYPERGLYCAEMIC adj. suffering from hyperglycaemia, an excess of sugar in the blood. |
HYPERGLYCEMIA | • hyperglycemia n. (Pathology) An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood. • HYPERGLYCEMIA n. an excess of sugar in the blood, also HYPERGLYCAEMIA. |
HYPERGLYCEMIAS | • hyperglycemias n. Plural of hyperglycemia. • HYPERGLYCEMIA n. an excess of sugar in the blood, also HYPERGLYCAEMIA. |
HYPERGLYCEMIC | • hyperglycemic adj. Having (or producing) excessively high blood sugar. • hyperglycemic n. (Pharmacology) A drug used to treat hyperglycemia. • HYPERGLYCEMIC adj. relating to hyperglycemia. |
HYPERMETROPY | • hypermetropy n. Dated form of hypermetropia. • HYPERMETROPY n. an inability to see near objects clearly because the images received by the eye are focused behind the retina, also HYPERMETROPIA. |
HYPERNYMIES | • hypernymies n. Plural of hypernymy. • HYPERNYMY n. the state of being a hypernym, a word representing a class of words or things. |
HYPERTHERMY | • HYPERTHERMY n. an extremely high fever, with a temperature of 41 degrees Centigrade or above, also HYPERPYREXIA. |
POLYEMBRYONATE | • polyembryonate adj. (Botany) Consisting of, or having, several embryos; polyembryonic. • POLYEMBRYONATE adj. forming more than one embryo from one ovule or from one fertilized ovum. |
POLYEMBRYONIES | • POLYEMBRYONY n. the condition of having several embryos. |
PSEUDOSYMMETRY | • pseudosymmetry n. Apparent symmetry of a crystal due to twinning. • PSEUDOSYMMETRY n. a deceptively close approach by a crystal to a higher degree of symmetry. |
PYRENOMYCETOUS | • PYRENOMYCETOUS adj. belonging to the Pyrenomycetes, a group of Ascomycetes whose characteristic fructification is the perithecium. |
SUPERSYMMETRY | • supersymmetry n. (Physics) A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical… • SUPERSYMMETRY n. the correspondence between fermions and bosons of identical mass that is postulated to have existed during the opening moments of the big bang and that relates gravity to the other forces of nature. |