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• primitive aquatic vertebrate
Example sentence • The cyclostome is a type of jawless fish.
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Example sentence • The monostome fish has a single opening serving as both mouth and anus.
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Example sentence • The nephrostome is a funnel-shaped opening at the beginning of the excretory tubules in many invertebrates.
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• used of your own ground
noun
• where you live at a particular time
adverb
• at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
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• provide with, or send to, a home
Example sentence • I can't wait to go home and relax after work.
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• a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws
Example sentence • Agnathans, the ancestors of jawed vertebrates, are generally considered to be the sister group of gnathostomes.
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• a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
Example sentence • The stadium has a retractable dome .
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• another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments
Example sentence • I love the shiny chrome finish on my new car.
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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 • I have a small gnome figurine in my garden.
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• a (usually) large and scholarly book
Example sentence • I found an old tome in the library.
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• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
Example sentence • She used a comb to style her hair.
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• a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
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• become bubbly or frothy or foaming
Example sentence • The waves crashed against the rocks, creating white foam .
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• a complex of concurrent things
Example sentence • Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes intellectual disability and distinctive physical features.
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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 23 pairs of chromosomes.
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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 • The human genome consists of approximately 3 billion base pairs.
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• clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music
Example sentence • I need to buy a metronome for my piano practice.
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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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• a toilet that is available to the public
Example sentence • I need to find the nearest restroom .
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• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Example sentence • The tourists decided to roam around the ancient ruins.
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• an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
Example sentence • He landed his private jet at the small local aerodrome .
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• an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
Example sentence • The airdrome was bustling with activity as passengers boarded their flights.
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• a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations
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• a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin
Example sentence • A dermatome is a surgical instrument used to remove layers of skin.
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• a stadium for horse shows or horse races
Example sentence • The ancient hippodrome in Constantinople was a famous venue for chariot races.
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• a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction
Example sentence • The loxodrome is the curve formed by the intersection of a sphere with a plane that cuts all the meridians at the same angle.
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• a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
Example sentence • A man, a plan, a canal: Panama is a palindrome .
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• a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Example sentence • She picked a ripe pome from the tree.
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• a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
Example sentence • Ginger is a rhizome that is commonly used in cooking.
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• a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing
Example sentence • The velodrome track is made of smooth, wooden boards.
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Example sentence • The term deuterostome refers to a specific type of animal development.
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• light carriage; pulled by a single horse
Example sentence • She arrived in a sleek black brougham , turning heads along the way.
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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 • I love eating honeycomb with my breakfast.
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• German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)
Example sentence • The unit of electrical resistance is measured in ohms.
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• a light resilient foam of polystyrene
Example sentence • I need a styrofoam cup for my coffee.
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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 • The acrosome is a cap-like structure that covers the head of a sperm cell.
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• any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
Example sentence • He planted brome grass in the field to prevent erosion.
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• small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules
Example sentence • The centrosome is an organelle found in eukaryotic cells.
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• (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration)
Example sentence • Scientists have discovered a new type of cytochrome in bacteria that helps them survive in extreme environments.
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• a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Example sentence • The dictyosome is responsible for packaging and distributing proteins in the cell.
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• DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells)
Example sentence • The plasmid pBR322 is a well-known example of an episome .
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• a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Example sentence • The renowned gastronome enjoyed exploring different cuisines.
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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 • The liposome encapsulated the medication, allowing it to be targeted to a specific area of the body.
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• an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)
Example sentence • The lysosome is responsible for breaking down waste materials in the cell.
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• a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA
Example sentence • The microsome is a small organelle found in cells.
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• scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination
Example sentence • The microtome can be used to slice thin sections of tissue for examination under a microscope.
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• (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule
Example sentence • The peristome is the ring around the mouth of a pitcher plant.
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• a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors
adjective satellite
• having or exhibiting many colors
verb
• color with many colors; make polychrome
Example sentence • The museum displayed a beautiful polychrome vase from ancient Greece.
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• an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur
Example sentence • The prodrome of the illness includes symptoms such as fatigue and headache.
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• a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves
Example sentence • The radome protects the antenna from weather and environmental damage.
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• an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell
Example sentence • The function of a ribosome is to synthesize proteins.
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