English words starting with mer - page 6

Meanings of Mermaid:

noun

A 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:

noun

A mermaid, a siren; a representation of a mermaid, especially in heraldry.

Meanings of Mermaids:

noun

A 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:

noun

The 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:

noun

The 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:

noun

Any 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.

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating such worms.

Meanings of Mero:

Partly; partial.

Usage examples:

Meronym

Meanings of Meroblastic:

adjective

Designating an ovum of which only a part undergoes cleavage to form the embryo.

Meanings of Merocerite:

noun

In some crustaceans: a segment of the antenna, between the ischiocerite and the carpocerite.

Meanings of Merocrine:

adjective

Designating 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:

noun

A 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:

noun

Originally: 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:

adjective

Of, relating to, or produced by merogony.

Meanings of Merogony:

noun

Embryonic development occurring in a fragment of an ovum (originally specifically in an enucleated ovum containing a male pronucleus).

Meanings of Merohedral:

adjective

Of 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 Merohedric:

adjective

= merohedral .

Meanings of Merohedrism:

noun

The state or property of being merohedral.

Meanings of Meroistic:

adjective

Designating or relating to an ovary or ovariole which produces nurse cells as well as ova. contrasted with panoistic.

Meanings of Meroitic:

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of the ancient city of meroe, located in present-day sudan, or its inhabitants or language.

Usage examples:

The meroitic civilization

noun

A 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:

adjective

Of a complex function: analytic everywhere on a given domain except at a set of isolated points.

Meanings of Meromyosin:

noun

Either 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:

noun

Aquatic organisms that spend only part of their life cycle as plankton; meroplanktonic organisms collectively.

Meanings of Meroplanktonic:

adjective

Designating or relating to an aquatic organism that spends only part of its life cycle (especially the immature stages) as plankton.

Meanings of Meropodite:

noun

A segment of a crustacean endopodite, typically the fourth counting from the tip, between the ischiopodite and the carpopodite.

Meanings of Merops:

noun

Originally: 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.