allusion | (noun) passing reference or indirect mention | - |
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allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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amorphophallus | (noun) any plant of the genus Amorphophallus | - |
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bacillus | (noun) aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil | Synonyms: B |
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callus | (noun) (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid | - |
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(noun) bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone | - |
(noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | Synonyms: callosity |
coccobacillus | (noun) a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus | - |
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collusion | (noun) secret agreement | - |
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(noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: connivance |
disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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gallus | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, suspender |
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illusion | (noun) the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas | Synonyms: delusion, head game |
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(noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, phantasy |
(noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: semblance |
illusionist | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: seer, visionary |
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(noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator |
illusoriness | (noun) The quality of resulting from an illusion; of being deceptive, imaginary, unreal. | - |
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illustration | (noun) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand | - |
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(noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, instance, representative |
(noun) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive | - |
(noun) showing by example | Synonyms: exemplification |
illustrator | (noun) an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.) | - |
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illustriousness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: greatness |
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lactobacillus | (noun) a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that produces lactic acid (especially in milk) | - |
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microphallus | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: micropenis |
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mollusc | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusk, shellfish |
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molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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mollusk | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, shellfish |
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nucellus | (noun) central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
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ocellus | (noun) an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color | Synonyms: eyespot |
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(noun) an eye having a single lens | Synonyms: simple eye, stemma |
phallus | (noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: member, penis |
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streptobacillus | (noun) any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria | - |
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thallus | (noun) a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes | - |
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thiobacillus | (noun) small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur | - |
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villus | (noun) a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane | - |
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vitellus | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: yolk |
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