Clam (v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible |
Clam (v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps. |
Clam (v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. |
Clam (v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. |
Clam (v. i.) To be moist or glutinous |
Clam (n.) Claminess |
Clam (n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. |
Clam (v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor |
Genus (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Hard (superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts |
Hard (superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to accomplish |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to resist or control |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure |
Hard (superl.) Difficult to please or influence |
Hard (superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste |
Hard (superl.) Rough |
Hard (superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance |
Hard (superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance |
Hard (superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures |
Hard (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. |
Hard (adv.) With pressure |
Hard (adv.) With difficulty |
Hard (adv.) Uneasily |
Hard (adv.) So as to raise difficulties. |
Hard (adv.) With tension or strain of the powers |
Hard (adv.) Close or near. |
Hard (v. t.) To harden |
Hard (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp. |
Hard-favored (a.) Hard-featured |
Hard-featured (a.) Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. |
Hard-fisted (a.) Having hard or strong hands |
Hard-fisted (a.) Close-fisted |
Hard-fought (a. Vigorously) contested |
Hard grass () A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. |
Hard-handed (a.) Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. |
Hard-headed (a.) Having sound judgment |
Hard-hearted (a.) Unsympathetic |
Hard-labored (a.) Wrought with severe labor |
Hard-mouthed (a.) Not sensible to the bit |
Hard-shell (a.) Unyielding |
Hard-tack (n.) A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread. |
Hard-visaged (a.) Of a harsh or stern countenance |
Mercenaria (n.) The quahog. |
Merry-go-round (n.) Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement |
Quahog (n.) Alt. of Quahaug |
Quahaug (n.) An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam. |
Quarter round () An ovolo. |
Round (v. i. & t.) To whisper. |
round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
round daily round | the usual activities in your day, the doctor made his rounds |
round of golf round | the activity of playing holes of golf, a round of golf takes about hours |
round dance round dancing | a ballroom dance characterized by revolving movement |
round dance ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
round-thelock patrol | a continuous nonstop patrol |
round | (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order), the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning, the postman's rounds, we enjoyed our round of the local bars |
hard sell | forceful and insistent advertising |
form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |