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  • English Word Odontoid Definition Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process.
  • English Word Odontolcae Definition An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis.
  • English Word Odontolite Definition A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.
  • English Word Odontology Definition The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.
  • English Word Odontophora Definition Same as Cephalophora.
  • English Word Odontophore Definition A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.
  • English Word Odontophorous Definition Having an odontophore.
  • English Word Odontoplast Definition An odontoblast.
  • English Word Odontopteryx Definition An extinct Eocene bird having the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London.
  • English Word Odontornithes Definition A group of Mesozoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcae, Odontotormae, and Saururae.
  • English Word Odontostomatous Definition Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects.
  • English Word Odontotormae Definition An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis.
  • English Word Odor Definition Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • English Word Odorament Definition A perfume; a strong scent.
  • English Word Odorant Definition Yielding odors; fragrant.
  • English Word Odorate Definition Odorous.
  • English Word Odorating Definition Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant.
  • English Word Odoriferous Definition Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes.
  • English Word Odorless Definition Free from odor.
  • English Word Odorline Definition A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil.
  • English Word Odorous Definition Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.
  • English Word Ods Definition A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.
  • English Word Odyl Definition Alt. of Odyle
  • English Word Odyle Definition See Od. [Archaic].
  • English Word Odylic Definition Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force.
  • English Word Odyssey Definition An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.
  • English Word Oe Definition a diphthong, employed in the Latin language, and thence in the English language, as the representative of the Greek diphthong oi. In many words in common use, e alone stands instead of /. Classicists prefer to write the diphthong oe separate in Latin words.
  • English Word Oecoid Definition The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.
  • English Word Oecology Definition The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world.
  • English Word Oeconomical Definition See Economical.