growths (noun)

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• vegetable wax — noun a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms) • Hypernyms: ↑wax * * * noun : a waxy product (as Japan wax) that is secreted by various plants commonly in thin flakes by the walls of the epidermal cells… …   Useful english dictionary

• snare — noun 1》 a trap for catching small animals, consisting of a loop of wire or cord that pulls tight. 2》 a length of wire, gut, or hide stretched across a drumhead to produce a rattling sound.     ↘(also snare drum) a drum fitted with snares; a side… …   English new terms dictionary

• black knot — noun disease of plum and cherry trees characterized by black excrescences on the branches • Hypernyms: ↑plant disease * * * noun 1. : a destructive disease of plum and cherry trees characterized by black excrescences on the branches and caused by …   Useful english dictionary

• old man's beard — noun 1. dense festoons of greenish grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America • Syn: ↑Spanish moss, ↑black moss, ↑long moss, ↑Tillandsia… …   Useful english dictionary

• thermocoagulation — noun congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current) • Hypernyms: ↑curdling, ↑clotting, ↑coagulation * * * |thər(ˌ)mō+ noun Etymology: therm + coagulation : surgical coagulation of tissue by the application of heat (as from a high frequency… …   Useful english dictionary

• cypress knee — noun : one of the outgrowths from the roots of bald cypress that are presumed to aerate the submerged root system * * * one of the woody growths that project above water from the roots of the bald cypress. [1775 85, Amer.] * * * cypress knee noun …   Useful english dictionary

• root tubercle — noun see root nodule * * * root tubercle noun A root nodule • • • Main Entry: ↑root * * * root tubercle, Botany. one of the small rootlike growths or nodules produced on the roots of leguminous plants by nitrogen fixing bacteria …   Useful english dictionary

• blue mold — noun Date: 1664 any of various fungi (genera Penicillium and Peronospora) that produce blue or blue green surface growths …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• cancer — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin (genitive Cancri), literally, crab; akin to Greek karkinos crab, cancer Date: 14th century 1. capitalized a. a northern zodiacal constellation between Gemini and Leo …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• hair — noun /hɛə,hɛɹ/ a) A pigmented keratinaceous growth that forms thin spires and grows out from a follicle on the human head. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. b) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and… …   Wiktionary

• actinic keratosis — noun A lesion on the skin, typically on the upper portion of the head, characterized by discolored, thickened or scaly growths of keratin, caused by exposure to the sun; common in fair complected people of a certain age. They are precancerous …   Wiktionary