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Meanings of Oligandrous:

adjective

Having a small number of stamens; = oligostemonous .

Meanings of Oliganthous:

adjective

Having few or sparse flowers.

Meanings of Oligarch:

noun

A ruler in an oligarchy.

Usage examples:

The claim that the oligarchs privatized companies in order to strip their assets gets the logic bac…

Meanings of Oligarchal:

adjective

Oligarchic.

Meanings of Oligarchies:

noun

A small group of people having control of a country or organization.

Usage examples:

The ruling oligarchy of military men around the president

Meanings of Oligarchism:

noun

Oligarchy as a principle or system of government.

Meanings of Oligarchist:

noun

An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.

Meanings of Oligarchize:

verb

To convert into an oligarchy; to subject to an oligarchy.

Meanings of Oligarchs:

noun

A ruler in an oligarchy.

Usage examples:

The claim that the oligarchs privatized companies in order to strip their assets gets the logic bac…

Meanings of Oligarchy:

noun

A small group of people having control of a country or organization.

Usage examples:

The ruling oligarchy of military men around the president

Meanings of Oligemia:

noun

Another term for hypovolaemia.

Meanings of Oligocene:

adjective

Relating to or denoting the third epoch of the tertiary period, between the eocene and miocene epochs.

Usage examples:

Rifting and subsidence continued through the eocene and oligocene periods

noun

The third epoch of the tertiary period, between the eocene and miocene epochs, or the system of rocks deposited during it.

Usage examples:

At the end of the oligocene the ural sea had disappeared

Meanings of Oligochaeta:

plural noun

A class of annelid worms which includes the earthworms. they have simple setae projecting from each segment and a small head lacking sensory appendages.

Usage examples:

Annelids with a clitellum (a swelling towards the head of the animal, where the gonads are located)…

Meanings of Oligochaete:

noun

An annelid worm of the class oligochaeta, such as an earthworm.

Usage examples:

For example, bacterial endosymbionts as found in the giant vent pogonophora are also present in man…

Meanings of Oligochaetous:

adjective

Oligochaete.

Meanings of Oligoclase:

noun

A feldspar mineral common in siliceous igneous rocks, consisting of a sodium-rich plagioclase (with more calcium than albite).

Usage examples:

It is composed of quartz, oligoclase, and microcline, with minor garnet, biotite, muscovite and iro…

Meanings of Oligocystic:

adjective

Having a few cysts or cavities.

Meanings of Oligocythemia:

noun

Deficiency of red blood cells; anaemia.

Meanings of Oligocythemic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characterized by oligocythaemia.

Meanings of Oligodendroglia:

plural noun

Oligodendrocytes collectively.

Usage examples:

The relationship of such nerve fibers to oligodendroglia in the central nervous system is not quite…

Meanings of Oligodendroglioma:

noun

A tumour derived from oligodendroglia.

Usage examples:

Touch preparations are recommended for pituitary adenomas, oligodendrogliomas, and lymphomas.

Meanings of Oligodynamic:

adjective

Effected or exerted by minute quantities of metallic ions in solution; acting or being active at very low concentrations.

Meanings of Oligohydramnios:

noun

Abnormally low volume of amniotic fluid; an instance of this.

Meanings of Oligomenorrhea:

noun

Abnormally light menstrual flow (now rare); infrequent menstruation; prolongation of the length of the menstrual cycle.

Meanings of Oligomer:

noun

A polymer whose molecules consist of relatively few repeating units.

Usage examples:

Condensed tannins are oligomers and polymers of flavonoid units linked by carbon-carbon bonds, whic…