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  • littoral - of or relating to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean
  • bight - the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends
  • exudate - a substance exuded; exudation
  • palynology - the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures
  • anemogamous - (botany) That reproduces via anemogamy (spread by wind)
  • exsert - to thrust out
  • factotum - a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house
  • stasimon - (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos
  • yclept - a past participle of clepe (to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept))
  • epithalamium - a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom
  • dybbuk - a demon, or the soul of a dead person, that enters the body of a living person and directs the person's conduct, exorcism being possible only by a religious ceremony
  • arrogate - to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right OR to attribute or assign to another; ascribe
  • sesquioxide - an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen and two of another element, as aluminum oxide, Al2O3
  • oxisol - a thick, weathered soil of the humid tropics, largely depleted in the minerals that promote fertility, and characteristic of the Amazon and Congo basins
  • spodosol - an acidic forest soil of low fertility, common to the cool, humid areas of North America and Eurasia
  • latosol - a reddish lateritic soil of the tropics, deeply weathered and infertile, characterized by hydroxides of iron and aluminum
  • periosteum - the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone
  • cancellate - of spongy or porous structure, as bone
  • chiliagon - a polygon with a thousand vertices and a thousand edges
  • myriagon - a polygon with 10,000 sides
  • hermeneutics - (1) the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures (2) the branch of theology that deals with the principles of Biblical exegesis
  • sinter - siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser
  • theodicy - a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil
  • areoid - The analogue of the geoid for the planet Mars; the Martian geoid. The gravitational and rotational equipotential surface for Mars. The surface that provides the datum line (the equivalent for sea level) for Mars.
  • regmaglypt - A small, shallow indentation or pit on the surface of a meteorite, resembling a thumbprint impression in clay, created by ablation while falling in an atmosphere.
  • interoception - Any of the senses that detect conditions within the body.
  • choanoflagellate - Any of a group of flagellate protozoa, of the class Choanoflagellatea, thought to be the closest unicellular ancestors of animals.
  • anisotropy - (1) The property of being directionally dependent. (2) The degree to which this property is exhibited.
  • adiabatic (1) That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). (2) That involves the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
  • enthalpy - A measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system.
  • proplyd - Contraction of protoplanetary disc.
  • orthorhombic - Having three unequal axes at right angles.
  • anastomosis - (1) Anatomy. communication between blood vessels by means of collateral channels, especially when usual routes are obstructed. (2) Biology, Geology. connection between parts of any branching system, as veinlets in a leaf or branches of a stream.
  • autapse - a chemical or electrical synapse from a neuron onto itself.
  • chemotaxis - Oriented movement toward or away from a chemical stimulus.
  • filopodia - A long, hairlike pseudopod composed of ectoplasm.
  • stigmergy - A mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions.
  • connectome - A comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, and may be thought of as its "wiring diagram".
  • neuropil - A dense network of neurons and glia in the central nervous system.
  • resilin - An elastic substance of cross-linked protein chains found in the cuticles of many insects, especially in the wings.
  • cavitation - (1) The rapid formation and collapse of vapor pockets in a flowing liquid in regions of very low pressure, a frequent cause of structural damage to propellers, pumps, etc. (2) Such a pocket formed in a flowing liquid.
  • allelomimesis - A range of activities in which the performance of a behavior increases the probability of that behavior being performed by other nearby animals.
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