| falciform |
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adjective
- sickle-shaped
- 1922: What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature? A double ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously. " James Joyce, Ulysses
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adjective
- made from, or rich in starch or flour
- having a floury texture; grainy
| | fascicle |
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noun
- A bundle or cluster.
- (anatomy): A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
- (botany): A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
- (botany): A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
- A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.
- 2005: Cynthia Joanne Brokaw & Kai-wing Chow, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">essay ten:</span> Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan"s Lingyan ge, by Anne Burkus-Chasson, http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=w2DjFx_RbjkC&pg=PA371&dq=Jingzhe&ei=PIhJR6HVNY2k6AL61vXwBg&sig=BpGxahEjebkccbWf5QwD8mQsZH0 p371 (The http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press; ISBN 0520231260 (10), ISBN 978-0520231269 (13))
- : The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the "whirlwind" binding (xuanfeng zhuang), sometimes called the "dragon scales" binding (longlin zhuang), to describe the overlapping sheets of paper within the book; the "fold" binding (zhezhuang), also known as the "folding sūtra" binding (jingzhe zhuang) or "Sanskrit" binding (fanjia zhuang), given its common use in the presentation of Buddhist texts; the "butter�y" binding (hudie zhuang), whose appellation derives from the effect of �uttering papers that accompanies the opening of the book; and the "thread" binding (xianzhuang), a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton �laments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper into fascicles. (For diagrams of these fabrications, see Fig. 30.)
| | fibril |
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noun
- A fine fibre or filament
- (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
| | fibrin |
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noun - A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood .
2. An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein Produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and foming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood.
| | filament |
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noun
- a fine thread or wire
- such a wire, heated to glowing, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve
- (botany) The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.
- In textiles, a continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length
| | filiform |
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adjective
- Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
- Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.
- Tiger beetles have antennae.
| | filum |
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noun (plural fila)
- (anatomy) a filamentous anatomical structure
| | flagellate |
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verb
- To whip or scourge.
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noun (pl=flagella or flagellums)
- (biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
- (biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
- A whip
| | flesh |
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noun
- the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- animal tissue, especially animal tissue used as food.
- the human body as a physical entity.
- the skin of a human or animal.
- the soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
- a yellowish pink colour; the colour of some human skin.
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verb
- to put flesh on; to fatten.
| | fleshy |
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adjective (flesh, ier)
- Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
- (Of a person) Having a lot of flesh, especially in one's face. Antonymous to bony. "Fleshy" is not considered pejorative (as fat for example) and is normally used on man, men.
- His face makes him look quite handsome.
| | flocculent |
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adjective
- flocculated, Flocculated, resembling bits of wool, woolly.
- Covered in a woolly substance; downy.
- flaky, Flaky.
| | florescence |
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noun
- The time, or the condition of budding or flowering
| | flower |
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noun
- (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), typically including sepals, petals, stamens, and ovary, ovaries; often conspicuously colourful.
- 1894, w:H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells, s:The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
- You know, Darwin studied their fertilisation, and showed that the whole structure of an ordinary orchid was contrived in order that moths might carry the pollen from plant to plant.
- (vulgar, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- An inflorescence that resembles a flower, but actually contains many small florets, such as a sunflower.
- A plant that bears flowers.
- We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.
- (context, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- The dogwoods are in this week.
- (idiomatic) The best examples or representatives of a group.
- We selected the of the applicants.
- (idiomatic) The best state of things; the prime.
- She was in the of her life.
verb
- To put forth blooms.
- (idiomatic) To reach a state of full development or great achievement.
| | flowering |
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noun
- The action of the verb to flower.
- blooming, Blooming
verb
- (present participle of, flower)
adjective
- (used only before the noun) Of a plant, that produces flowers.
- Azaleas are plants.
- Having flowers that are opening.
- The apple trees are .
| | flowerpot |
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noun
- a container in which plants are grown
| | flowery |
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adjective
- Pertaining to flowers.
- decorate, Decorated with flowers.
- Of a speech: too complicated; elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; bombastic; verbose.
| | foliage |
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noun
- The leaves of plants
- A cluster of leaves
- An architectural ornament representing foliage.
| | foliate |
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verb (foliat, ing)
- to form into leaves
adjective
- of or relating to leaves
- shaped like a leaf
- (geology) foliated
| | foliation |
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noun
- The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
- The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
- The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
- The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
- The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
- The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
- (topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but which, taken together, are coextensive with it.
| | follicle |
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noun
- (anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
- (botany) A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.
| | foramen |
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noun (plural foramina)
- (anatomy) an opening, an orifice; a short passage
The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Foramina_of_the_skull Wikipedia
| | forb |
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noun
- any non-woody flowering plant that is not a grass.
| | Force |
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proper noun
- A mystical power which is the object of the Jedi and Sith religions.
| | forest |
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noun
- A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- Forest of criticism.
verb transitive
- To cover an area with trees
adjective
- Connected with forests
| | fork |
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noun
- A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
- (obsolete) A gallows.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A tuning-fork.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions (see image).
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process execute, executing parts of the same program.
- (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
- crotch, Crotch (British usage).
verb
- To use a fork to move food to the mouth.
- (context, computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicate, duplicating the existing process.
- (context, computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
- To kick someone in the crotch.
| | freestone |
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adjective (pos=freeston, -)
- Of or pertaining to fruit, especially peaches, with a stone that easily detaches itself from the fruit.
| | frond |
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noun (plural fronds)
- the leaf of a fern
- any fern-like leaf or other object
| | fructification |
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noun - The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
- The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
- The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
| | fructify |
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verb (fructifies, fructifying, fructified)
- (intransitive) To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
- (transitive) To make productive or fruitful.
| | fruit |
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noun (see Usage notes for discussion of plural)
- (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
- While cucumber is technically a , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- (context, nutrition) Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
- fruit salad, Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- (figurative) A positive end result or reward of labour/labor or effort.
- ''His long nights in the office eventually bore , when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- (figurative) A child of a marriage.
- The of the union.
- (context, offensive slang) A homosexual or effeminate man.
verb
- To produce fruit.
| | fruitless |
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adjective - Useless; unproductive.
- The unskilled man's attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.
- Bearing no fruit; barren.
- The fruitless woman desperately wanted to have children.
| | fruit tree |
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noun
- a tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis.
| | fusiform |
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adjective
- Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end.
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