eubacteria | (noun) a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella | Synonyms: eubacterium, true bacteria |
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eubacterium | (noun) a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella | Synonyms: eubacteria, true bacteria |
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eucalypt | (noun) a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | Synonyms: eucalyptus, eucalyptus tree |
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eucalyptus | (noun) a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | Synonyms: eucalypt, eucalyptus tree |
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(noun) wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber | - |
eucaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eukaryote |
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eucaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eukaryotic |
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euchre | (noun) a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand | Synonyms: five hundred |
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euclidean | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidian |
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euclidian | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidean |
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eudaemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudemon, good spirit |
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eudaemonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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eudaemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudemonic |
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eudaimonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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eudemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudaemon, good spirit |
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eudemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudaemonic |
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eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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eudiometer | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases | - |
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eugenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced | - |
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eugenics | (noun) the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) | - |
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euglena | (noun) minute single-celled green freshwater organism having a single flagella; often classed as algae | - |
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euglenid | (noun) marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism | Synonyms: euglenoid, euglenophyte |
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euglenoid | (noun) marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism | Synonyms: euglenid, euglenophyte |
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euglenophyte | (noun) marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism | Synonyms: euglenid, euglenoid |
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eukaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eucaryote |
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eukaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eucaryotic |
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eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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eulogist | (noun) an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics | Synonyms: panegyrist |
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eulogistic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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eulogium | (noun) a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently | Synonyms: eulogy |
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eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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eulogy | (noun) a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently | Synonyms: eulogium |
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(noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, paean, panegyric, pean |
eunuch | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: castrate |
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eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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euphemism | (noun) an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh | - |
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euphemistic | (adjective) of or the nature of euphemism | - |
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euphemistically | (adverb) in a euphemistic manner | - |
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euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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euphonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonical |
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euphonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonic |
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euphonious | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonous |
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(adjective) (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident | - |
euphonium | (noun) a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family | - |
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euphonous | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonious |
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euphony | (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: music |
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euphorbium | (noun) an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: gum eurphorbium |
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euphoria | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphory |
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euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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(noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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euphuism | (noun) an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology | - |
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(noun) any artificially elegant style of language | - |
eupnea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnoea |
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eupneic | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: breathing, eupnoeic |
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eupnoea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnea |
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eupnoeic | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: breathing, eupneic |
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eurhythmics | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy |
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eurhythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurythmics, eurythmy |
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euro | (noun) the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies | - |
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euronithopod | (noun) widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) | Synonyms: Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda |
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europhilia | (noun) admiration for Europe, Europeans, or the European Union. | - |
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europium | (noun) a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 63, Eu |
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eurypterid | (noun) large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs | - |
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eurythmics | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmy |
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eurythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics |
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eusporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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eutectic | (noun) a mixture of substances having a minimum melting point | - |
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euthanasia | (noun) the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) | Synonyms: mercy killing |
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euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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euthenics | (noun) the study of methods of improving human well-being and efficient functioning by improving environmental conditions | - |
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eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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(noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal |
eutrophic | (adjective) (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication | - |
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eutrophication | (noun) excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life | - |
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