abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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(adjective) not limited by law | - |
(adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
(adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
(adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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(adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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acuate | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acute, needlelike, sharp |
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aculeate | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeated |
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acuminate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point | - |
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acute | (adjective) having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course | - |
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(adjective) of an angle; less than 90 degrees | - |
(adjective) of critical importance and consequence | - |
(adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
(adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, needlelike, sharp |
(adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: intense |
adequate | (adjective) having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: equal |
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(adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: fair to middling, passable, tolerable |
(adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: enough |
adnate | (adjective) of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached | - |
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adsorbate | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbable |
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adulterate | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterated, debased |
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affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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agglomerate | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered |
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agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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aggregate | (adjective) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets | - |
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(adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass |
agnate | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnatic, paternal |
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alate | (adjective) (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions | Synonyms: alated |
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alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
(adjective) every second one of a series | - |
alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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andante | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately slow | - |
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angulate | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angular |
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animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
(adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
annulate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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(adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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(adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
(adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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arcuate | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, bowed |
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areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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articulate | (adjective) expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language | - |
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(adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulated |
associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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astute | (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: sharp, shrewd |
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attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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(adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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(adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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biaxate | (adjective) having two axes | Synonyms: biaxal, biaxial |
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bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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bifoliate | (adjective) having two leaves | - |
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bifurcate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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bilabiate | (adjective) having two lips | Synonyms: two-lipped |
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bilobate | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobated, bilobed |
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biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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bipartite | (adjective) divided into two portions almost to the base | - |
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(adjective) involving two parts or elements | Synonyms: two-part, two-way |
bipinnate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns) | - |
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biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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bisulcate | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: cloven |
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bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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blate | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: bashful |
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brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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brunette | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunet |
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brute | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish |
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bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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(adjective) having calypters | - |
campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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caudate | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudated |
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(adjective) (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip | - |
celibate | (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: continent |
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chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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chaste | (adjective) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) | - |
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(adjective) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse | - |
(adjective) pure and simple in design or style | - |
chelate | (adjective) having or resembling chelae or claws | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelated |
chelicerate | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: cheliceral |
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chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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ciliate | (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliary |
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(adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliary |
(adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliated |
circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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clathrate | (adjective) designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another | - |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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coarctate | (adjective) (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case | - |
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