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• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
Example sentence • She combs her hair every morning.
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• a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
Example sentence • The domes of the cathedral were visible from afar.
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• used of your own ground
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• where you live at a particular time
adverb
• at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
verb
• provide with, or send to, a home
Example sentence • Many people dream of owning their own homes .
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• a (usually) large and scholarly book
Example sentence • He spent hours reading through ancient tomes at the library.
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• a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
verb
• become bubbly or frothy or foaming
Example sentence • She foams the milk before adding it to her coffee.
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• a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
Example sentence • My garden is filled with colorful gnomes .
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• German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)
Example sentence • The resistance of this circuit is 10 ohms .
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• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Example sentence • The lion roams freely in the jungle.
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• a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
Example sentence • Rainforests and tundras are two different types of biomes .
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• a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century
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• primitive aquatic vertebrate
Example sentence • Lampreys and hagfish are types of cyclostomes .
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• a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
Example sentence • The rhizomes of certain plants, such as ginger and turmeric, are widely used in cooking.
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• a complex of concurrent things
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• A valley, often wooded and often with no river
Example sentence • There are many beautiful combes in the English countryside.
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• a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing
Example sentence • Many professional cyclists train regularly at indoor velodromes .
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• an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
Example sentence • Many small towns have aerodromes for small private planes.
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• an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)
Example sentence • The catacombs beneath the city were a labyrinth of tunnels and burial chambers.
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• a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
Example sentence • Humans typically have 46 chromosomes in each cell.
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• an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector
Example sentence • Scientists are studying liposomes as potential drug delivery systems.
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• a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
Example sentence • She loves reading poems before going to bed.
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• any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
Example sentence • The field was filled with various bromes .
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• a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders
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• (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly.
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• a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
Example sentence • Farmers often prefer loams for growing crops because they have a good balance of clay, sand, and silt.
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• a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Example sentence • Apples and pears are both types of pomes .
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• a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
Example sentence • Tourists flocked to see the ancient tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
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• a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg
Example sentence • Damaged acrosomes can lead to fertility problems.
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Example sentence • One of the most famous antinomes is the concept of free will versus determinism.
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• a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations
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• any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa
Example sentence • Humans typically have 22 pairs of autosomes .
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Example sentence • The beachcombs are always on the lookout for washed-up treasures.
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Example sentence • Fossilized biostromes provide valuable insights into past marine ecosystems.
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• light carriage; pulled by a single horse
Example sentence • The royal family used to travel in luxurious broughams .
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• a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin
Example sentence • Doctors use dermatomes to diagnose nerve damage.
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• A structural unit that functions in the adhesion of cells to form tissue
Example sentence • The presence of desmosomes strengthens the structural integrity of tissues.
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• the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
Example sentence • Scientists are studying the human and mouse genomes to understand the similarities and differences between the two species.
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• a stadium for horse shows or horse races
Example sentence • Many cities in ancient Greece had their own hippodromes .
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• a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae
verb
• carve a honeycomb pattern into
Example sentence • Bees use honeycombs to store their honey and raise their young.
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Example sentence • He intombs his deceased cat in the backyard.
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Example sentence • Under a microscope, you can observe the karyosomes within the cell.
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• a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms
Example sentence • The resistance of the circuit is measured in megohms .
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Example sentence • Some studies suggest that mesosomes are artifacts created during the preparation of cells for electron microscopy.
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• clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music
Example sentence • I have two metronomes on my piano to help with my timing.
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• scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination
Example sentence • The microtomes available in the lab were outdated and needed to be replaced.
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Example sentence • The circuit has a resistance of 10 milliohms .
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