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  • English Word Exossation Definition A depriving of bone or of fruit stones.
  • English Word Exosse-ous Definition Boneless.
  • English Word Exosstate Definition To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.
  • English Word Exostome Definition The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.
  • English Word Exostosis Definition Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.
  • English Word Exostosis Definition A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.
  • English Word Exoteric Definition Alt. of Exoterical
  • English Word Exoterical Definition External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.
  • English Word Exoterics Definition The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.
  • English Word Exoteries Definition of Exotery
  • English Word Exotery Definition That which is obvious, public, or common.
  • English Word Exotheca Definition The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.
  • English Word Exothecium Definition The outer coat of the anther.
  • English Word Exotic Definition Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
  • English Word Exotic Definition Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
  • English Word Exotical Definition Foreign; not native; exotic.
  • English Word Exoticism Definition The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
  • English Word Expand Definition To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
  • English Word Expand Definition To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
  • English Word Expand Definition To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
  • English Word Expand Definition To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.
  • English Word Expanded Definition of Expand
  • English Word Expander Definition Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
  • English Word Expanding Definition of Expand
  • English Word Expanding Definition That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.
  • English Word Expanse Definition That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.
  • English Word Expanse Definition To expand.
  • English Word Expansibility Definition The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.
  • English Word Expansible Definition Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.
  • English Word Expansile Definition Expansible.