English words starting with mer - page 6
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Meanings of Mermaid:
nounA mythical sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair.
Usage examples:
Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including merma…
Meanings of Mermaiden:
nounA mermaid, a siren; a representation of a mermaid, especially in heraldry.
Meanings of Mermaids:
nounA mythical sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair.
Usage examples:
Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including merma…
Meanings of Merman:
nounThe male equivalent of a mermaid.
Usage examples:
We've all heard of mermaids, but know less of their male equivalent, the merman.
Meanings of Mermen:
nounThe male equivalent of a mermaid.
Usage examples:
We've all heard of mermaids, but know less of their male equivalent, the merman.
Meanings of Mermithidae:
nounAny of various nematode worms belonging to or formerly included in the genus mermis, the family mermithidae, or the order mermithida, whose larvae are parasites of insects.
adjectiveOf, relating to, or designating such worms.
Meanings of Meroblastic:
adjectiveDesignating an ovum of which only a part undergoes cleavage to form the embryo.
Meanings of Merocerite:
nounIn some crustaceans: a segment of the antenna, between the ischiocerite and the carpocerite.
Meanings of Merocrine:
adjectiveDesignating a gland whose secretory product is released without the loss of cells or their cytoplasm. also: designating or relating to this type of secretion. compare "apocrine", "holocrine".
Meanings of Merocyte:
nounA cell or nucleus formed by division in a meroblastic ovum; specifically any of numerous small nuclei formed by the repeated division of supernumerary sperm nuclei in fertilized eggs, especially those of birds, reptiles, and selachian fishes.
Meanings of Merogamy:
nounOriginally: the production of gametes that are smaller and of a different structure than vegetative cells of the same organism (obsolete). in later use: merogony, especially that resulting in the production of gametes or gamonts.
Meanings of Merogonic:
adjectiveOf, relating to, or produced by merogony.
Meanings of Merogony:
nounEmbryonic development occurring in a fragment of an ovum (originally specifically in an enucleated ovum containing a male pronucleus).
Meanings of Merohedral:
adjectiveOf a crystal or crystal form: having one half, a quarter, or one eighth of the maximum number of faces possible for its crystal class; merosymmetric.
Meanings of Merohedrism:
nounThe state or property of being merohedral.
Meanings of Meroistic:
adjectiveDesignating or relating to an ovary or ovariole which produces nurse cells as well as ova. contrasted with panoistic.
Meanings of Meroitic:
adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the ancient city of meroe, located in present-day sudan, or its inhabitants or language.
Usage examples:
The meroitic civilization
nounA native or citizen of the ancient city of meroe, located in present-day sudan.
Usage examples:
The meroitics processed the ore near the river
Meanings of Meromorphic:
adjectiveOf a complex function: analytic everywhere on a given domain except at a set of isolated points.
Meanings of Meromyosin:
nounEither of the two fractions obtained from myosin by the action of trypsin and certain other proteolytic enzymes, of which the heavier fraction (in full "heavy meromyosin") consists of the globular heads and a small section of the helical tail of the myosin molecule, and the lighter fraction (in full "light meromyosin") consists of the remainder of the tail.
Meanings of Meroplankton:
nounAquatic organisms that spend only part of their life cycle as plankton; meroplanktonic organisms collectively.
Meanings of Meroplanktonic:
adjectiveDesignating or relating to an aquatic organism that spends only part of its life cycle (especially the immature stages) as plankton.
Meanings of Meropodite:
nounA segment of a crustacean endopodite, typically the fourth counting from the tip, between the ischiopodite and the carpopodite.
Meanings of Merops:
nounOriginally: the european bee-eater, merops apiaster. now usually (in form merops): the genus (family meropidae) containing this and most other bee-eaters; a bird of this genus.
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