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- English Word Diocesan Definition Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
- English Word Diocesan Definition A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
- English Word Diocesan Definition The clergy or the people of a diocese.
- English Word Diocese Definition The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
- English Word Diocesener Definition One who belongs to a diocese.
- English Word Dioceses Definition of Diocese
- English Word Diodon Definition A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
- English Word Diodon Definition A genus of whales.
- English Word Diodont Definition Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.
- English Word Diodont Definition A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.
- English Word Dioecia Definition A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
- English Word Dioecia Definition A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.
- English Word Dioecian Definition Alt. of Dioecious
- English Word Dioecious Definition Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.
- English Word Dioeciously Definition In a dioecious manner.
- English Word Dioeciousness Definition The state or quality of being dioecious.
- English Word Dioecism Definition The condition of being dioecious.
- English Word Diogenes Definition A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.
- English Word Dioicous Definition See Dioecious.
- English Word Diomedea Definition A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross.