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  • English Word Hexametrical Definition Consisting of six metrical feet.
  • English Word Hexametrist Definition One who writes in hexameters.
  • English Word Hexandria Definition A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens.
  • English Word Hexandrian Definition Alt. of Hex-androus
  • English Word Hexane Definition Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.
  • English Word Hexangular Definition Having six angles or corners.
  • English Word Hexapetalous Definition Having six petals.
  • English Word Hexaphyllous Definition Having six leaves or leaflets.
  • English Word Hexapla Definition A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.
  • English Word Hexapod Definition Having six feet.
  • English Word Hexapod Definition An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
  • English Word Hexapoda Definition The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.
  • English Word Hexapodous Definition Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
  • English Word Hexapterous Definition Having six processes.
  • English Word Hexastich Definition Alt. of Hexastichon
  • English Word Hexastichon Definition A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
  • English Word Hexastyle Definition Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple.
  • English Word Hexastyle Definition A hexastyle portico or temple.
  • English Word Hexateuch Definition The first six books of the Old Testament.
  • English Word Hexatomic Definition Having six atoms in the molecule.
  • English Word Hexatomic Definition Having six replaceable radicals.
  • English Word Hexavalent Definition Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.
  • English Word Hexdecyl Definition The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane.
  • English Word Hexdecylic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.
  • English Word Hexeikosane Definition A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
  • English Word Hexene Definition Same as Hexylene.
  • English Word Hexicology Definition The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
  • English Word Hexine Definition A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.
  • English Word Hexoctahedron Definition A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces.
  • English Word Hexoic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.