apocope
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~ abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope"
apocrypha
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~ 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
Apocynaceae
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~ chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs
Apocynum
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~ perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers
Apocynum androsaemifolium
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~ North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
apodeme
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~ ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles
Apodemus
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~ Old World field mice
Apodidae
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~ swifts; in former classifications included in the order Coraciiformes
Apodiformes
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~ swifts; hummingbirds
apoenzyme
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~ a protein that combines with a coenzyme to form an active enzyme
apogamy
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~ (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
apogee
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~ a final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development"
apogee
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~ apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth
Apogon
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~ type genus of the Apogonidae
Apogonidae
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~ bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth
apojove
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~ apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter
apolemia
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~ large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long
apollinaire
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~ French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918)
Apollo
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~ (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis