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- English Word Nematognathi Definition An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.
- English Word Nematoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Nematoidea.
- English Word Nematoid Definition One of the Nematoidea. see Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Nematoidea Definition An order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. Called also Nematodea, and Nematoda.
- English Word Nematoidean Definition Nematoid.
- English Word Nematophora Definition Same as Coelenterata.
- English Word Nemean Definition Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.
- English Word Nemertes Definition A genus of nemertina.
- English Word Nemertian Definition Nemertean.
- English Word Nemertid Definition Nemertean.
- English Word Nemertida Definition Nemertina.
- English Word Nemertina Definition An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela.
- English Word Nemesis Definition The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.
- English Word Nemetean Definition Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.
- English Word Nemetean Definition One of the Nemertina.
- English Word Nemophilist Definition One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- English Word Nemophily Definition Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods.
- English Word Nemoral Definition Of or pertaining to a wood or grove.
- English Word Nemorous Definition Woody.
- English Word Nempne Definition To name or call.
- English Word Nempt Definition Called; named.
- English Word Nems Definition The ichneumon.
- English Word Nemthelminthes Definition Alt. of Nematelminthes
- English Word Nenia Definition A funeral song; an elegy.
- English Word Nenuphar Definition The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.
- English Word Neo- Definition A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Neo-Christianity Definition Rationalism.
- English Word Neo-Latin Definition Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.
- English Word Neocarida Definition The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.
- English Word Neocene Definition More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.