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  • English Word Gymnasium Definition A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.
  • English Word Gymnasiums Definition of Gymnasium
  • English Word Gymnast Definition One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.
  • English Word Gymnastic Definition Alt. of Gymnastical
  • English Word Gymnastic Definition A gymnast.
  • English Word Gymnastical Definition Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.
  • English Word Gymnastically Definition In a gymnastic manner.
  • English Word Gymnastics Definition Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
  • English Word Gymnic Definition Alt. of Gymnical
  • English Word Gymnic Definition Athletic exercise.
  • English Word Gymnical Definition Athletic; gymnastic.
  • English Word Gymnite Definition A hydrous silicate of magnesia.
  • English Word Gymnoblastea Definition The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule.
  • English Word Gymnoblastic Definition Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea.
  • English Word Gymnocarpous Definition Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth.
  • English Word Gymnochroa Definition A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra.
  • English Word Gymnocladus Definition A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee.
  • English Word Gymnocopa Definition A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages.
  • English Word Gymnocyte Definition A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus.
  • English Word Gymnocytode Definition A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus.
  • English Word Gymnodont Definition One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon.
  • English Word Gymnogen Definition One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm.
  • English Word Gymnoglossa Definition A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
  • English Word Gymnolaema Definition Alt. of Gymnolaemata
  • English Word Gymnolaemata Definition An order of Bryozoa, having no epistome.
  • English Word Gymnonoti Definition The order of fishes which includes the Gymnotus or electrical eel. The dorsal fin is wanting.
  • English Word Gymnopaedic Definition Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopaedic; -- said of certain birds.
  • English Word Gymnophiona Definition An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha.
  • English Word Gymnophthalmata Definition A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.
  • English Word Gymnoplast Definition A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.