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Nematoid
() One of the Nematoidea. see Illustration in Appendix.
Nematoidea
() An order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. Called also Nematodea, and Nematoda.
Nematoidean
() Nematoid.
Nematophora
() Same as Coelenterata.
Nemean
() Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.
Nemetean
() Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.
Nemetean
() One of the Nemertina.
Nemertes
() A genus of nemertina.
Nemertian
() Nemertean.
Nemertid
() Nemertean.
Nemertida
() Nemertina.
Nemertina
() An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela.
Nemesis
() The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.
Nemophilist
() One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
Nemophily
() Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods.
Nemoral
() Of or pertaining to a wood or grove.
Nemorous
() Woody.
Nempne
() To name or call.
Nempt
() Called; named.
Nems
() The ichneumon.
Nenia
() A funeral song; an elegy.
Nenuphar
() The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.
Neo-
() A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.
Neocarida
() The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.
Neocene
() More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.
Neo-Christianity
() Rationalism.
Neocomian
() A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.
Neocomian
() Of or pertaining to the lower greensand.
Neocosmic
() Of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history.
Neocracy
() Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.
Neodamode
() In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service.
Neodymium
() An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140.8.
Neogaean
() Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.
Neogamist
() A person recently married.
Neogen
() An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.
Neography
() A new method or system of writing.
Neo-Latin
() Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.
Neolithic
() Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.
Neologian
() Neologic; neological.
Neologian
() A neologist.
Neologianism
() Neologism.
Neologic
() Alt. of Neological
Neological
() Of or pertaining to neology; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines.
Neologically
() In a neological manner.
Neologism
() The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
Neologism
() A new word, phrase, or expression.
Neologism
() A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.
Neologist
() One who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language.
Neologist
() An innovator in any doctrine or system of belief, especially in theology; one who introduces or holds doctrines subversive of supernatural or revealed religion; a rationalist, so-called.
Neologistic
() Alt. of Neologistical