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6,355 words match “HY”

HYBODONT a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.
HYBODUS n.
An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.
HYBRID a. 2 definitions
Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.
HYBRIDISM n.
The state or quality of being hybrid.
HYBRIDIST n.
One who hybridizes.
HYBRIDITY n.
Hybridism.
HYBRIDIZABLE a.
Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybr…
HYBRIDIZATION n.
The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.
HYBRIDIZE v.
To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.
HYBRIDIZER n.
One who hybridizes.
HYBRIDOUS a.
Same as Hybrid.
HYDAGE n.
A land tax. See Hidage.
HYDANTOIC a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See Glycoluric.
HYDANTOIN n.
A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea.
HYDATID n.
sp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary. Hydatid of Morgagni (Anat.), one of the small pedunculated bodies found between the testicle and the head of the epididymis, and supposed to be a remnant of the Müllerian duct.
HYDATIFORM a.
Resembling a hydatid.
HYDATOID a.
Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.
HYDR- n.
. See under Hydro-.
HYDRA n. 4 definitions
e wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Milton.
HYDRA-TAINTED a.
Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.
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