Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In medicine, a wasting disease; atrophy, marasmus, or consumption.
- n. In. botany, an abnormal condition of flowers, in which the anthers become defective and the pollen becomes inert or wanting.
Examples
“a mention of the Ericaceæ being subject to contabescence of the anthers.”
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
“Gaertner and other writers have spoken of this defective condition as contabescence. [”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘contabescence’.
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
Many of these terms are archaic, or obsolete.
More medical terms can be found on...enterectomy, ethmoid, parhidrosis, parelectronomy, parectasis, dermatoxerasia, parazygosis, parepididymis, paraspasm, lymphadenopathy, necrosemiosis, necromimesis and 770 more...
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kad's Words
caliph, sylvain, slither, rebbe, sverdrup, vapid, onus, atavistic, cathexis, acathexis, kludge, lithe and 97 more...
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oldecat's Words
noncommutative, morphodynamics, ferrywoman, circumcircle, acceleration, inactivity, biodiesel, corrosion, quadrilogy, imprimitivity, normalizer, teleosemantics and 240 more...
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Becoming Words
inchoateness
effervescent, albescent, concrescence, fervescent, frondescent, suffrutescent, violescent, viridescent, resipiscence, rufescent, sonorescent, tenebrescence and 131 more...
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Physiological Terms
Terms used in physiology
contabescence, infix, instill, demulcent, pachystichous, pachyhaemous, adrenal, suprarenal, adrenocorticotropic, remedial, flaccid, phosphene and 136 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Monstrously ugly words
A far from comprehensive litany of some of the most horrendous words in the English language.
irrefragable, ululation, pulchritudinous, nullipara, unguent, sepulchral, bumptious, phlegmatic, crepuscular, funereal, supererogatory, poltroon and 17 more...
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