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Meanings of Megalonyx:

noun

A ground sloth of the genus megalonyx (family megalonychidae), known from fossil remains found in pliocene and pleistocene deposits in north america.

Meanings of Megalopolis:

noun

A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex.

Usage examples:

A dizzying megalopolis ablaze with neon

Meanings of Megalopolises:

noun

A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex.

Usage examples:

A dizzying megalopolis ablaze with neon

Meanings of Megaloscope:

noun

Any of several magnifying instruments: †(a) a hand lens for examining small objects (obsolete).

Meanings of Megaloscopy:

noun

Any of several magnifying instruments: †(a) a hand lens for examining small objects (obsolete).

Meanings of Meganthropus:

noun

A large fossil hominid known from remains found in java in 1941 and now usually included in homo erectus.

Meanings of Megaphone:

noun

A large funnel-shaped device for amplifying and directing the voice.

Usage examples:

They carried on a conversation without aid of telephones, megaphones or any other voice enhancing e…

verb

Utter through, or as if through, a megaphone.

Usage examples:

The director stood around megaphoning orders

Meanings of Megaphoned:

verb

Utter through, or as if through, a megaphone.

Usage examples:

The director stood around megaphoning orders

noun

A large funnel-shaped device for amplifying and directing the voice.

Usage examples:

They carried on a conversation without aid of telephones, megaphones or any other voice enhancing e…

Meanings of Megaphones:

noun

A large funnel-shaped device for amplifying and directing the voice.

Usage examples:

They carried on a conversation without aid of telephones, megaphones or any other voice enhancing e…

verb

Utter through, or as if through, a megaphone.

Usage examples:

The director stood around megaphoning orders

Meanings of Megaphoning:

verb

Utter through, or as if through, a megaphone.

Usage examples:

The director stood around megaphoning orders

noun

A large funnel-shaped device for amplifying and directing the voice.

Usage examples:

They carried on a conversation without aid of telephones, megaphones or any other voice enhancing e…

Meanings of Megapod:

noun

Megapode.

Meanings of Megapodes:

noun

A large ground-dwelling australasian and se asian bird that builds a large mound of debris to incubate its eggs by the heat of decomposition.

Usage examples:

Instead of using body heat to directly incubate eggs, megapodes passively incubate eggs.

Meanings of Megaron:

noun

The central hall of a large mycenaean house.

Usage examples:

Equally, it might be seen as a megaron (with its central roof open to release the smoke of internal…

Meanings of Megasclere:

noun

A large spicule of a sponge, forming one of the chief supporting elements of the skeleton.

Meanings of Megasporangium:

noun

A sporangium containing megaspores; the part of a plant in which the female gametophyte is formed.

Meanings of Megaspore:

noun

The larger of the two kinds of spores produced by some ferns.

Usage examples:

Both of these genera are heterosporous, meaning that each species produces two distinctly different…

Meanings of Megasporophyll:

noun

A sporophyll that bears megasporangia (e.g. the carpel of an angiosperm or ovuliferous scale of a gymnosperm).

Meanings of Megasse:

noun

The fibrous residue left after the extraction of sugar from sugar cane, used chiefly as fuel.

Meanings of Megasses:

noun

The fibrous residue left after the extraction of sugar from sugar cane, used chiefly as fuel.

Meanings of Megatherioid:

adjective

Of, relating to, or resembling a megatherium.

Meanings of Megatherium:

noun

An extinct giant ground sloth of the pliocene and pleistocene epochs in america, reaching a height of 5 m (16 ft) when standing erect.

Usage examples:

Several megatheriums and other rare species of the prehistoric era lived on this island.

Meanings of Megatherm:

noun

A plant (or other organism) requiring a very warm environment.

adjective

= megathermic .

Meanings of Megatheroid:

adjective

Of, relating to, or resembling a megatherium.

Meanings of Megaton:

noun

A unit of explosive power chiefly used for nuclear weapons, equivalent to one million tons of tnt.

Usage examples:

H-bombs of fifteen megatons each

Meanings of Megavolt:

noun

A unit of electromotive force equal to one million volts.

Usage examples:

There is a procedure to do that with minor power lines - that is, those of less than 100 megavolt a…