apnea
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～ transient cessation of respiration
apnø
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～ lidelse med periodevis manglende åndedrætsbevægels ...
apoapsis
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～ (astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited
apocalypse
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～ a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil
Apocalypse
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～ the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle
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