adrenocorticotrophic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotropic |
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adrenocorticotropic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotrophic |
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aeolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: eolotropic |
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allotropic | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropical |
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allotropical | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropic |
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ametropic | (adjective) of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina | - |
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amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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atrophic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by atrophy | - |
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atrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: diminished, wasted |
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autotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autophytic |
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boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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(adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
electrophoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: cataphoretic |
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electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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emmetropic | (adjective) of or relating to the normal condition of the eye in which visual images are in clear focus on the retina | - |
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eolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: aeolotropic |
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ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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eutrophic | (adjective) (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication | - |
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extropic | (adjective) of or relating to extropy | - |
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gonadotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotropic |
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gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
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heterotrophic | (adjective) requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment | - |
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hypermetropic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hyperopic |
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hypertrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells | Synonyms: enlarged |
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isentropic | (adjective) with unchanging entropy; at constant entropy | - |
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isotropic | (adjective) invariant with respect to direction | Synonyms: isotropous |
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isotropous | (adjective) invariant with respect to direction | Synonyms: isotropic |
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lipotropic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipophilic |
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metropolitan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a metropolis | - |
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neurotropic | (adjective) (of a virus, toxin, or chemical) tending to attack or affect the nervous system preferentially | - |
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orthotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex | - |
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pantropic | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropical |
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pantropical | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropic |
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psychotropic | (adjective) affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes | Synonyms: psychoactive |
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semitropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropical, subtropic, subtropical |
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semitropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, subtropic, subtropical |
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stroppy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: bolshy |
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subtropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropical |
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subtropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropic |
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trophic | (adjective) of or relating to nutrition | - |
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trophoblastic | (adjective) of or relating to the trophoblast | - |
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trophotropic | (adjective) of or relating to trophotropism | - |
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tropic | (adjective) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) | Synonyms: tropical |
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(adjective) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics | Synonyms: tropical |
tropical | (adjective) of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic | - |
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(adjective) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) | Synonyms: tropic |
(adjective) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense | - |
(adjective) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics | Synonyms: tropic |