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1. acerola, n. View full entry 1954
...The Barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra (family Malpighiaceae); the edible fruit of this tree, rich in vitamin C and used to make syrups, vitamin supplements, etc....
2. Acheulean, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1901
...Of, relating to, or designating an early Palaeolithic period in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India, preceding the Mousterian, and distinguished in particular by the manufacture of stone hand axes. Also...
3. acidophilus, adj. and n. View full entry 1914
...attrib. Designating milk and other food products and dietary supplements that contain certain fermenting bacteria, esp. Lactobacillus acidophilus, and are consumed esp. in probiotic diets; (also) designating such bacteria....
4. acronym, v. View full entry 1967
...trans. To convert into an acronym; (also) to call by an acronym. Chiefly in pass....
5. actinoid, n.2 View full entry 1958
...= actinide...
6. actino-uranium, n. View full entry 1918
...The (fissile) isotope of uranium of mass number 235....
7. Action Directe, n. View full entry 1980
...An extreme left-wing French terrorist group active esp. in the 1980s....
8. addicting, adj. View full entry 1931
...= addictive1....
9. additivity, n. View full entry 1904
...The condition or property of being additive....
10. adeno-associated, adj. View full entry 1965
...Designating any of a group of parvoviruses which are dependent upon a helper virus (usually an adenovirus) for replication, and which can be used as vectors for gene transfer....
11. Adlerian, adj. and n. View full entry 1912
...Of, relating to, or characteristic of Alfred Adler or the theories or methods advanced by or associated with him, esp. his analysis of the influence of environmental factors in the formation of...
12. Aerobie, n. View full entry 1985
...A proprietary name for: a thin plastic ring which is spun through the air, like a Frisbee, in a catching game....
13. aerodynamicist, n. View full entry 1927
...An expert or specialist in aerodynamics....
14. aerosolize, v. View full entry 1944
...trans. To make into an aerosol, disperse as an aerosol....
15. afterburner, n. View full entry 1947
...An auxiliary burner in the exhaust section of a jet engine to provide a temporary increase in thrust. Also fig....
16. afterfeather, n. View full entry 1937
...A secondary structure attached to the undersurface of the shaft of a contour feather, typically resembling a smaller and downier feather; also called hyporachis. Cf. aftershaft...
17. aleatoric, adj. View full entry 1921
...Dependent on uncertain contingencies; left to or resulting from a chance process; aleatory....
18. alloimmune, adj. View full entry 1965
...Designating an immune response to an alloantigen; of or relating to such a response; exhibiting or caused by such a response....
19. allotypy, n. View full entry 1956
...The occurrence of an immunoglobulin or other protein in genetically determined, antigenically distinct forms in different members of the same species....
20. alphatron, n. View full entry 1942
...A proposed name for: a cyclotron. rare. disused....
