| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogously | (adverb) in an analogous manner | - |
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| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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| azygous | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygos |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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| callipygous | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygian |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| dizygous | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygotic |
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| fungous | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungal |
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| heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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| (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| homologous | (adjective) corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function | - |
| homozygous | (adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| humongous | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| langouste | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: crayfish, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| langoustine | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: Norwegian lobster, scampo |
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| lucifugous | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugal |
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| myrmecophagous | (adjective) feeding on ants | - |
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| nidifugous | (adjective) (of birds) leaving the nest shortly after hatching | - |
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| pemphigous | (adjective) of or relating to or manifesting pemphigus | - |
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| phytophagous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophilous, plant-eating |
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| saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
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| zoophagous | (adjective) (of animals) carnivorous | Synonyms: flesh-eating, meat-eating |
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