minor surgery | any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
variola minor variola minor virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about percent |
American woodcock woodcock snipe Philohela minor | small long-billed woodcock, prized as a game bird |
minor suit | ( bridge) a suit of inferior scoring value, either diamonds or clubs |
minor tranquilizer minor tranquillizer minor tranquilliser antianxiety drug anxiolytic anxiolytic drug | a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability |
marginal cost incremental cost differential cost | the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output |
pectoralis minor musculus pectoralis minor smaller pectoral muscle | a skeletal muscle that draws down the scapula or raises the ribs |
rhomboid minor muscle lesser rhomboid muscle musculus rhomboideus minor | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the vertebral column and slightly upward |
teres minor teres minor muscle musculus teres minor | teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally |
bit part minor role | a small role |
minor axis | the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid |
minor premise minor premiss subsumption | the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) |
minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
minor scale minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
minor key minor mode | a key based on the minor scale |
minor-league team minor-league club | a team that plays in a minor league |
minor league minors bush league | a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) |
Asia Minor Anatolia | a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey |
Canis Minor Little Dog | a constellation to the east of Orion, contains Procyon |
Little Bear Ursa Minor | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
minor planet planetoid | any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun |
c child kid youngster minor shaver nipper small fry tiddler tike tyke fry nestling | a young person of either sex, she writes books for children, they're just kids, `tiddler' is a British term for youngster |
minor leaguer bush leaguer | a player on a minor-league baseball team |
marginal placentation ventral placentation | with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary |
myrtle Vinca minor | widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers |
common duckweed lesser duckweed Lemna minor | of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia |
lesser wintergreen Pyrola minor | the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, Europe and North America |
hooded pitcher plant Sarracenia minor | yellow-flowered pitcher plant of southeastern United States having trumpet-shaped leaves with the orifice covered with an arched hood |
California bluebell whitlavia Phacelia minor Phacelia whitlavia | desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes |
marginal wood fern evergreen wood fern leatherleaf wood fern Dryopteris marginalis | North American fern with evergreen fronds |
incidental expense incidental minor expense | (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified, he requested reimbursement of $ for incidental expenses |
marginal utility | (economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service |
petit mal epilepsia minor | a seizure of short duration characterized by momentary unconsciousness and local muscle spasms or twitching, the girl was frightened by her first petit mal |
petit mal epilepsy petit mal epilepsia minor | epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities), she has been suffering from petit mal since childhood |
alastrim variola minor pseudosmallpox pseudovariola milk pox white pox West Indian smallpox Cuban itch Kaffir pox | a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus |
minor fast day | one of five minor fast days on the Jewish calendar |
fringy marginal | at or constituting a border or edge, the marginal strip of beach |
minor modest small small-scale pocket-size pocket-sized | limited in size or scope, a small business, a newspaper with a modest circulation, small-scale plans, a pocket-size country |
minor | inferior in number or size or amount, a minor share of the profits, Ursa Minor |
minor | lesser in scope or effect, had minor differences, a minor disturbance |
minor nonaged underage | not of legal age, minor children |
minor | of a scale or mode, the minor keys, in B flat minor |
minor | of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization |
minor | of lesser importance or stature or rank, a minor poet, had a minor part in the play, a minor official, many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen, minor back roads |
minor | of lesser seriousness or danger, suffered only minor injuries, some minor flooding, a minor tropical disturbance |
borderline marginal | of questionable or minimal quality, borderline grades, marginal writing ability |
minor venial | warranting only temporal punishment, venial sin |
marginal | producing at a rate that barely covers production costs, marginal industries |
minor(ip) | of the younger of two boys with the same family name, Jones minor |
bare(a) marginal | just barely adequate or within a lower limit, a bare majority, a marginal victory |