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HEXAPETALOUS a.
Having six petals.
HEXAPHYLLOUS a.
Having six leaves or leaflets.
HEXAPLA n.
A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.
HEXAPOD a. 2 definitions
An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
HEXAPODA n.
The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.
HEXAPODOUS a.
Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
HEXAPTEROUS a.
Having six processes. Gray.
HEXASTICH; HEXASTICHON n.
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
HEXASTYLE a. 2 definitions
A hexastyle portico or temple.
HEXATEUCH n.
The first six books of the Old Testament.
HEXATOMIC a. 2 definitions
Having six atoms in the molecule. [R.]
HEXAVALENT a.
Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.
HEXDECYL n.
The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane.
HEXDECYLIC a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.
HEXEIKOSANE n.
raffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. [Written also hexacosane.]
HEXENE n.
Same as Hexylene.
HEXICOLOGY n.
The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally. St. George Mivart.
HEXINE n.
A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.
HEXOCTAHEDRON n.
A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces.
HEXOIC a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.
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