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- English Word Gymnorhinal Definition Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.
- English Word Gymnosomata Definition One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell.
- English Word Gymnosophist Definition One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.
- English Word Gymnosophy Definition The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.
- English Word Gymnosperm Definition A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.
- English Word Gymnospermous Definition Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.
- English Word Gymnospermous Definition Belonging to the class of plants consisting of gymnosperms.
- English Word Gymnotoka Definition The Athecata.
- English Word Gymnotus Definition A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.
- English Word Gyn Definition To begin [Obs.] See Gin.
- English Word Gynaeceum Definition Alt. of Gynaecium
- English Word Gynaecian Definition The same as Gynecian.
- English Word Gynaecium Definition The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women.
- English Word Gynaecophore Definition A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Haematozoa.
- English Word Gynander Definition A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.
- English Word Gynandria Definition A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.
- English Word Gynandrian Definition Alt. of Gynandrous
- English Word Gynandromorph Definition An animal affected with gynandromorphism,
- English Word Gynandromorphism Definition An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.
- English Word Gynandromorphous Definition Affected, with gynandromorphism.
- English Word Gynandrous Definition Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.
- English Word Gynantherous Definition Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.
- English Word Gynarchy Definition Government by a woman.
- English Word Gyneceum Definition See Gynaeceum.
- English Word Gynecian Definition Of or relating to women.
- English Word Gynecocracy Definition Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy.
- English Word Gynecological Definition Of or pertaining to gynecology.
- English Word Gynecology Definition The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women.
- English Word Gyneocracy Definition See Gynecocracy.
- English Word Gyneolatry Definition The adoration or worship of woman.