animal
|
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
fauna,
creature,
beast,
brute,
animate being |
decimal
|
a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 |
decimal fraction |
decimal
|
a number in the decimal system |
- |
duodecimal
|
one part in twelve equal parts |
twelfth,
one-twelfth,
twelfth part |
formal
|
a lavish dance requiring formal attire |
ball |
formal
|
a gown for evening wear |
dinner dress,
dinner gown,
evening gown |
infinitesimal
|
(mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit |
- |
isoseismal
|
a line on a map connecting points at which earthquake shocks are of equal intensity. |
- |
mammal
|
any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk |
mammalian |
normal
|
something regarded as a normative example |
pattern,
convention,
rule,
formula |
planetesimal
|
one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system |
- |
protomammal
|
probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals |
therapsid |
simal
|
East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok |
red silk-cotton tree,
Bombax ceiba,
Bombax malabarica |
subnormal
|
a person of less than normal intelligence |
- |
tamal
|
dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed |
tamale |
thermal
|
rising current of warm air |
- |