English dictionary: words starting with proth

noun

A song or poem celebrating a forthcoming wedding.

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John ashbery, in ‘a blessing in disguise,’ has written a fast, sure prothalamion for the sometime w…

noun

A song or poem celebrating a forthcoming wedding.

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John ashbery, in ‘a blessing in disguise,’ has written a fast, sure prothalamion for the sometime w…

noun

A song or poem celebrating a forthcoming wedding.

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John ashbery, in ‘a blessing in disguise,’ has written a fast, sure prothalamion for the sometime w…

noun

The gametophyte of ferns and related plants.

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Here i re-examine the formation of the prothallus in a fern gametophyte in the context of a ‘whole-…

adjective

Prothallial.

noun

Prothallus.

adjective

Of the nature of or resembling a prothallus.

noun

The gametophyte of ferns and related plants.

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Here i re-examine the formation of the prothallus in a fern gametophyte in the context of a ‘whole-…

noun

An enclosing structure or sheath, or a part of one, which is primary in nature or basal in position; especially (a) (in a coral polyp) the theca in its initial or rudimentary form (rare); (b) (in a foraminiferan of the superfamily fusulinacea) an unmodified primary wall; (c) (in a graptolite of the order graptoloidea) the basal part of a theca, attached to the sicula.

noun

(especially in the orthodox church) the action of placing the eucharistic elements on the credence table.

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Now what is a table of prothesis doing in a church?

noun

(especially in the orthodox church) the action of placing the eucharistic elements on the credence table.

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Now what is a table of prothesis doing in a church?

adjective

Of, relating to, or exhibiting prothetely.

noun

In certain insect larvae: the development of one part of the body, especially the wings, at a faster rate than that of the rest, typically as a result of abnormally high temperature or abnormal hormonal influence.

adjective

Posited or going before; antecedent.

adverb

In a prothetical manner.

adjective

Of or relating to a prothonotary.

noun

The college of notaries of the roman curia.

noun

A chief clerk in some law courts, originally in the byzantine court.

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Oh, you'll tell me the protonotaries and clerks of the court are writers too.

noun

A chief clerk in some law courts, originally in the byzantine court.

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Oh, you'll tell me the protonotaries and clerks of the court are writers too.

noun

The office or position of protonotary.

noun

The anterior segment of the thorax of an insect, not bearing any wings.

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Relative to the foundress, soldiers have an enlarged prothorax and fore femora, reduced wings and a…

noun

The anterior segment of the thorax of an insect, not bearing any wings.

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Relative to the foundress, soldiers have an enlarged prothorax and fore femora, reduced wings and a…

noun

The anterior segment of the thorax of an insect, not bearing any wings.

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Relative to the foundress, soldiers have an enlarged prothorax and fore femora, reduced wings and a…

noun

A protein present in blood plasma which is converted into active thrombin during coagulation.

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Contact with tissue factor triggers the coagulation cascade, resulting in the conversion of prothro…

noun

A hypothetical original undifferentiated matter from which the chemical elements were supposed to derive.