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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.