English dictionary: words starting with prop - page 1

adjective

For, or relating to, producing young plants or animals

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The rules apply to laboratories and greenhouses that provide propagative material used to grow cert…

noun

A covered, typically heated container filled with earth or compost, used for germinating or raising seedlings.

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I once lost a year's crop of tender seedlings inside propagators sitting on top of a paraffin heate…

noun

A covered, typically heated container filled with earth or compost, used for germinating or raising seedlings.

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I once lost a year's crop of tender seedlings inside propagators sitting on top of a paraffin heate…

adjective

Propagative rare before 20th century.

noun

A vegetative structure that can become detached from a plant and give rise to a new plant, e.g. a bud, sucker, or spore.

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Many plant species can reproduce clonally by creeping roots or stems, propagules such as bulbils an…

noun

A portion of a plant, lichen, etc., capable of giving rise to a new individual; specifically (a) (in a lichen) a fragment of the thallus capable of propagating the lichen.

adjective

Characterized by or involving forward and backward motion, especially of the lower jaw in chewing. compare palinal , proal .

noun

A flammable hydrocarbon gas of the alkane series, present in natural gas and used as bottled fuel.

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The gas component may be ethane, propane, butane, carbon dioxide, or hydrogen sulphide, but is most…

noun

Either of two isomeric liquid alcohols; = "propylene glycol".

noun

Each of two isomeric liquid alcohols used as solvents; propyl alcohol.

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The alcohols (eg, ethanol, methanol, propanol, and ethylene glycol) play a small role individually …

noun

Another term for acetone.

noun

An unsaturated hydrocarbon radical related to propyne; 2-propynyl. usually attributive or a formative element in chemical names.

adjective

Of or containing propargyl.

adjective

Designating or relating to a word in ancient greek having an acute accent on the antepenultimate syllable. also in extended use: designating or relating to a word in another language having the stress on that syllable.

noun

A proparoxytone word.

adjective

Having or characterized by proparoxytone accent or stress.

noun

A feeling that precedes or anticipates passion; the first stirring of a passion; especially an emotion as experienced by jesus.

adjective

Of or relating to a propatagium; especially designating or relating to certain muscles and tendons in the front edge of the wing or gliding membrane.

noun

In bats, gliding mammals, pterosaurs, etc.: the part of the patagium (the wing or gliding membrane) anterior to the forelimb. in birds: the fold of skin running between the shoulder and the front edge of the wing.

verb

Drive or push something forwards.

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The boat is propelled by using a very long paddle

adjective

That can be propelled.

noun

A substance that propels something.

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Liquid helium from a tank in the lunar module was used to assure a steady flow of propellants to th…

adjective

Capable of propelling something.

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Propellant gases

noun

A substance that propels something.

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Liquid helium from a tank in the lunar module was used to assure a steady flow of propellants to th…

adjective

Capable of propelling something.

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Propellant gases

verb

Drive or push something forwards.

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The boat is propelled by using a very long paddle

noun

A mechanical device for propelling a boat or aircraft, consisting of a revolving shaft with two or more broad, angled blades attached to it.

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One engine on the top of the aircraft is attached to large propellers that produce lift, much like …

noun

A mechanical device for propelling a boat or aircraft, consisting of a revolving shaft with two or more broad, angled blades attached to it.

Usage examples:

One engine on the top of the aircraft is attached to large propellers that produce lift, much like …