Aloes wood () See Agalloch. |
Amboyna wood () A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Brazil wood () The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan |
Brazil wood () A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree |
Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. |
Campeachy Wood () Logwood. |
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Family (v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager |
Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. |
Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor |
Family (v. t.) Course of descent |
Family (v. t.) Honorable descent |
Family (v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals |
Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order |
Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females. |
Kiabooca wood () See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Lingoa wood () Amboyna wood. |
Myall wood () A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla. |
Nicaragua wood () Brazil wood. |
Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. |
Rosetta wood () An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. |
Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. |
Sappan wood () Sapan wood. |
Sea wood louse () A sea slater. |
Shittim wood (n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Thyine wood () The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. |
Wood (a.) Mad |
Wood (v. i.) To grow mad |
Wood (n.) A large and thick collection of trees |
Wood (n.) The substance of trees and the like |
Wood (n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. |
Wood (n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. |
Wood (v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for |
Wood (v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood. |
Wood-bound (a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. |
Wood-layer (n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. |
Wood-note (n.) A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. |
Wood-sare (n.) A kind of froth seen on herbs. |
Wood-sere (n.) The time when there no sap in the trees |
Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ |
Wood tick () Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata. |
Wood-wash (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen |
Wood-wax (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen |
Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen. |
Zoological (a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals. |
family practice family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
birth control birth prevention family planning | limiting the number of children born |
basal body temperature method of family planning basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
Battle of the Marne Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
bacteria family | a family of bacteria |
Rhizobiaceae family Rhizobiaceae | a small family of rod-shaped bacteria |
Bacillaceae family Bacillaceae | typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores |
Myxophyceae family Myxophyceae Schizophyceae family Schizophyceae | former terms for Cyanophyceae |
Nostocaceae family Nostocaceae | blue-green algae |
Oscillatoriaceae family Oscillatoriaceae | blue green algae |
Pseudomonodaceae family Pseudomonodaceae | rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria, include important plant and animal pathogens |
Athiorhodaceae family Athiorhodaceae | small motile sulphur bacteria |
Nitrobacteriaceae family Nitrobacteriaceae | usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria |
Thiobacteriaceae family Thiobacteriaceae | free-living coccoid to rod-shaped bacteria that derive energy from oxidizing sulfur or sulfur compounds |
Spirillaceae family Spirillaceae | rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria |
Bacteroidaceae family Bacteroidaceae | family of bacteria living usually in the alimentary canal or on mucous surfaces of warm-blooded animals, sometimes associated with acute infective processes |
Corynebacteriaceae family Corynebacteriaceae | a large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Enterobacteriaceae family Enterobacteriaceae | a large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Rickettsiaceae family Rickettsiaceae | microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates |
Chlamydiaceae family Chlamydiaceae | Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates |
Mycoplasmataceae family Mycoplasmataceae | pleomorphic Gram-negative nonmotile microorganism similar to both viruses and bacteria, parasitic in mammals |
Actinomycetaceae family Actinomycetaceae | filamentous anaerobic bacteria |
Streptomycetaceae family Streptomycetaceae | higher bacteria typically aerobic soil saprophytes |
Mycobacteriaceae family Mycobacteriaceae | a family of bacteria |
Polyangiaceae family Polyangiaceae Myxobacteriaceae family Myxobacteriaceae | bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung |
Micrococcaceae family Micrococcaceae | spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment, includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes |
Lactobacillaceae family Lactobacillaceae Lactobacteriaceae family Lactobacteriaceae | lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens, bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid |
Spirochaetaceae family Spirochaetaceae | large coarsely spiral bacteria, free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters |
Treponemataceae family Treponemataceae | small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic |
protoctist family | any of the families of Protoctista |
Endamoebidae family Endamoebidae | a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract |
Globigerinidae family Globigerinidae | a family of protoctists |
Nummulitidae family Nummulitidae | a family of fossil protoctists |
Arcellidae family Arcellidae | soil and freshwater protozoa, cosmopolitan in distribution |
Tribonemaceae family Tribonemaceae | simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae |
Laminariaceae family Laminariaceae | large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters |
Fucaceae family Fucaceae | small family of brown algae: gulfweeds, rockweeds |
Euglenaceae family Euglenaceae | considered green algae |
Ulvaceae family Ulvaceae sea-lettuce family | thin flat or tubular green algae |
Volvocaceae family Volvocaceae | unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates |
Chlamydomonadaceae family Chlamydomonadaceae | green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome |
Zygnemataceae family Zygnemataceae | pond scums: common freshwater algae forming green slimy masses |
Oedogoniaceae family Oedogoniaceae | filamentous green algae |
Characeae family Characeae | green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts |
Desmidiaceae family Desmidiaceae | unicellular algae |
Gigartinaceae family Gigartinaceae | a family of protoctist |
Rhodymeniaceae family Rhodymeniaceae | a family of protoctist |