*mop*

n. 1. 1 a genus consisting of one species: the yerba mansa.
Syn. -- genus Anemopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; irregular + &unr_; leaf. ] (Bot.) Having leaves irregularly placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Belize. Population (2000) = 5, 845. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + &unr_; to show. ] (Physiol.) A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + fe`rein to bear. ] (Chem.) Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + photograph. ] A picture made by any of the processes for reproducing photographs in colors; a color photograph. -- Chro`mo*pho`to*graph"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + E. photography. ] The art of producing photographs in colors- [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A photolithograph printed in colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + E. plastid. ] (Bot.) A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + E. phylogeny. ] (Biol.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ NL. cormophyta, fr. Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + fyto`n plant. ] (Bot.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. ko`smos the world + pla`ssein to form. ] Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. “Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms.” Gudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite. ] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. [ 1913 Webster ]

In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Cosmopolitan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the character of a cosmopolite. [ R. ] Hackluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; wave + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; To appear: cf. F. cymophane. So named in allusion to a peculiar opalescence often seen in it. ] (Min.) See Chrysoberyl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.

a. (Med.) Dermatopathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dermatophyte. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; skin + &unr_; wing. ] 1. (Zool.) The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) An order of Mammalia; the Chiroptera.

[ Written also Dermaptera, and Dermatoptera. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Dermopterygii. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; skin + &unr_; wing, fin, dim. of &unr_; wing. ] (Zool.) A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a class of marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae comprising the diatoms.
Syn. -- Bacillariophyceae, class Bacillariophyceae, class Diatomophyceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a dry mop for dusting floors.
Syn. -- dust mop, dry mop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'e`ntomon an insect + fagei^n to eat. ] (Zoöl.) 1. a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvæ feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A group of edentates, including the ant-eaters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zoöl.) Relating to the Entomophaga. -- n. One of the Entomophaga. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zoöl.) Feeding on insects; insectivorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; insect + &unr_; a lover. ] (Bot.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects.
Syn. -- genus Entomophthora. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of mostly parasitic lower fungi that typically develop in the bodies of insects.
Syn. -- family Entomophthoraceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of fungi coextensive with the family Entomophthoraceae.
Syn. -- order Entomophthorales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. one of the genera of mastiff bats, of the family Molossidae.
Syn. -- genus Eumops. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; marriage + E. petalous: cf. F. gamopétale. ] (Bot.) Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; marriage + &unr_; leaf. ] (Bot.) Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent). Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a thing drawn or written (fr. &unr_; write) + -phone, as in telephone. Originally a trademark. ] An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm. This older term is almost completely replaced for modern devices by the word phonograph (or hi-fi), and technological changes have made the term sound antiquated, and it is usually used to refer to older non-electronic versions of the phonograph. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. Same as Haematoplastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, blood + filei^n to love.] (Med.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds; it is caused by an absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood, and is a recessive genetic disease linked to the X-chromosome, and therefore usually occurs only in males; there are several specific forms. It may be treated by administering purified clotting factor. It was formerly termed Hematophilia. [1913 Webster +PJC]

n. A person afflicted with hemophilia; called also hemophile. [ PJC ]

a. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophilic. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophiliac.
Syn. -- haemophilic, hemophiliac. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. (Microbiology) Growing best in a medium containing blood, or in blood; -- of bacteria. [ PJC ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma blood + &unr_; to spit: cf. F. hémoptysie.] (Med.) The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs. [1913 Webster]

n. A strong dislike or fear of homosexuals, especially to an unreasonable degree. [ PJC ]

a. Disliking or fearing homosexuals to an unreasonable degree. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous. ] 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.