Word Meanings - MIXOGAMOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• SPAWN
  1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. 2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• PAIRER
  One who impairs. Wyclif.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• DURABILITY
  The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DURATION
  The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.
• SEVERAL
  1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• DURUKULI
  A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus).
• DURING
  In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
• PAIR
  In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion. Note: Pairs are named in accordance with the kind of motion they permit; thus, a journal and its bearing form a turning pair, a
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ADUROL
  Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• APPAIR
  To impair; to grow worse.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.