POLYMORPHA

Meaning of POLYMORPHA in English

ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈmȯrfə noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, poly- + -morpha

in some especially former classifications : a suborder or other group of beetles including the Clavicornia and Serricornia

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

ZEBRA MUSSEL — noun Date: 1883 a chiefly freshwater Eurasian lamellibranch mollusk ( Dreissena polymorpha ) that was accidentally introduced into the Great …
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HEPATICA — I. ]ə̇kə, ]ēkə noun Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, liverwort, from Latin hepatica, feminine of hepaticus of the liver; …
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ZEBRA MUSSEL — noun Etymology: so called from the light and dark stripes on the shell : a Eurasian lamellibranch mollusk of the …
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GROUND LIVERWORT — noun 1. : a common liverwort ( Marchantia polymorpha ) 2. : a lichen ( Peltigera canina ) somewhat similar …
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DEAD-MAN'S-FINGERS — ˌ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun plural but singular or plural in construction or dead-men's-fingers 1. : any of several European orchids (genus Orchis …
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LIVERWORT — (n.) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
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DREISSENA — (n.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very …
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LIVERWORT — ( n. ) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DREISSENA — ( n. ) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to …
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ZEBRA MUSSEL — a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously …
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DEAD-MAN'S FINGERS — /ded"manz', -meuhnz/ any of various fungi, sponges, plant roots, animal parts, etc., having fingerlike projections and a pale or dull …
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ZEBRA MUSSEL — Date: 1883 : a chiefly freshwater Eurasian lamellibranch mollusk ( Dreissena polymorpha ) that was accidentally introduced into the Great …
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LIVERWORT — noun a flowerless plant (marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. 2. liverwort ·noun a ranunculaceous plant …
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DREISSENA — noun a genus of bivalve shells of which one species (d. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very …
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ZEBRA MUSSEL — [zebra mussel] n (1883): a freshwater Eurasian lamellibranch mollusk (Dreissena polymorpha) that was accidentally introduced into the Great Lakes and …
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MARCHANTIA — genus of liverworts (creeping ribbonlike plants) in the order Marchantiales, commonly found on moist clay or silty soils, especially on …
Britannica English vocabulary
ASCOMYCETES — (Top) Xylaria hypoxlon; (bottom) earth tongue (Geoglossum fallax) a class of fungi (division Mycota) known as the sac fungi. They …
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ZEBRA MUSSEL — The zebra mussel, a freshwater Eurasian lamellibranch mollusk (Dreissena polymorpha), is a marine shellfish which was first discovered in the …
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