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- English Word Metadiscoidal Definition Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.
- English Word Metagastric Definition Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
- English Word Metage Definition Measurement, especially of coal.
- English Word Metage Definition Charge for, or price of, measuring.
- English Word Metagenesis Definition The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.
- English Word Metagenesis Definition Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
- English Word Metagenetic Definition Of or pertaining to metagenesis.
- English Word Metagenic Definition Metagenetic.
- English Word Metagnathous Definition Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.
- English Word Metagrammatism Definition Anagrammatism.
- English Word Metagraphic Definition By or pertaining to metagraphy.
- English Word Metagraphy Definition The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration.
- English Word Metal Definition An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.
- English Word Metal Definition Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.
- English Word Metal Definition A mine from which ores are taken.
- English Word Metal Definition The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.
- English Word Metal Definition Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
- English Word Metal Definition The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
- English Word Metal Definition The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.
- English Word Metal Definition Glass in a state of fusion.
- English Word Metal Definition The rails of a railroad.
- English Word Metal Definition To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
- English Word Metalammonium Definition A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.
- English Word Metalbumin Definition A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.
- English Word Metaldehyde Definition A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
- English Word Metaled Definition of Metal
- English Word Metalepses Definition of Metalepsis
- English Word Metalepsis Definition The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
- English Word Metalepsy Definition Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.
- English Word Metaleptic Definition Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.