| meteortropism | (noun) an effect of climate on biological processes (as the effect on joint pains etc.) | - |
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| metropolis | (noun) people living in a large densely populated municipality | Synonyms: city |
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| (noun) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts | Synonyms: city, urban center |
| metropolitan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a metropolis | - |
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| (noun) a person who lives in a metropolis | - |
| (noun) in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity | - |
| metroptosis | (noun) prolapse of the uterus | Synonyms: descensus uteri |
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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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| neurotropism | (noun) an affinity for neural tissues | - |
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| neutropenia | (noun) leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte) | - |
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| neutrophil | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophile |
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| neutrophile | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophil |
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| orthotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex | - |
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| osteodystrophy | (noun) defective bone development; usually attributable to renal disease or to disturbances in calcium and phosphorus metabolism | - |
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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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| phototropism | (noun) an orienting response to light | - |
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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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| semitropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: subtropics |
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| somatotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotropic hormone, somatotropin, STH |
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| somatotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans | Synonyms: growth hormone, human growth hormone, somatotrophic hormone, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, STH |
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| spectrophotometer | (noun) a photometer for comparing two light radiations wavelength by wavelength | - |
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| strop | (noun) a leather strap used to sharpen razors | - |
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| (verb) sharpen on a strop | - |
| strophanthin | (noun) a bitter and very toxic glycoside derived from plants of the genus Strophanthus; in moderate doses it is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses it is a powerful poison; used in Africa as an arrow poison | - |
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| strophanthus | (noun) any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds | - |
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| strophe | (noun) one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama | - |
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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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| subtropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: semitropics |
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| thermotropism | (noun) an orienting response to warmth | - |
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| thyrotrophin | (noun) anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophic hormone, thyrotropic hormone, thyrotropin, TSH |
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| thyrotropin | (noun) anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophic hormone, thyrotrophin, thyrotropic hormone, TSH |
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| tightrope | (noun) tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground | - |
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| trope | (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, image |
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| trophic | (adjective) of or relating to nutrition | - |
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| trophobiosis | (noun) a symbiotic relation in which one organism protects the other in return for some kind of food product | - |
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| trophoblast | (noun) the membrane that forms the wall of the blastocyst in early development; aids implantation in the uterine wall | - |
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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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| trophotropism | (noun) an orienting response to food | - |
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| trophozoite | (noun) a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle | - |
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| trophy | (noun) something given as a token of victory | Synonyms: prize |
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| (noun) an award for success in war or hunting | - |
| 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 |
| (noun) either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics | - |
| 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 |
| tropically | (adverb) in a tropical manner | - |
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| tropicbird | (noun) mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land | Synonyms: boatswain bird, tropic bird |
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| tropics | (noun) the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate | Synonyms: Torrid Zone, tropical zone |
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| tropism | (noun) an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source | - |
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| troponomy | (noun) the place names of a region or a language considered collectively | Synonyms: troponymy |
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| troponym | (noun) a word that denotes a manner of doing something | Synonyms: manner name |
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| troponymy | (noun) the place names of a region or a language considered collectively | Synonyms: troponomy |
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| (noun) the semantic relation of being a manner of does something | - |
| tropopause | (noun) the region of discontinuity between the troposphere and the stratosphere | - |
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| troposphere | (noun) the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude) | - |
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| ulatrophia | (noun) recession of the gums | - |
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