7 And 8 Two Flashcards
Dogface
Soldier/ infantryman
Infantry: : soldiers trained, armed, and equipped to fight on foot
Tawsing
British: to beat someone with a leather strip.
Gateaux
Food baked or served in form of a cake
Wickiup
Definition of wickiup
: a hut used by the nomadic Indians of the arid regions of the western and southwestern U.S. with a usually oval base and a rough frame covered with reed mats, grass, or brushwood
also : a rude temporary shelter or hut
Pteryla
Pterylae pl
: one of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow
Bandore
A bass stringed instrument resembling a guitar
Xerosis
: abnormal dryness of a body part or tissue (as the skin or conjunctiva)
Xeroses
Ptomain?
Ptomaine
: any of various organic bases which are formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria on nitrogenous matter and some of which are poisonous
Chylous
Resembling chyle, lymph that is milky from emulsified fats
Chalaza
Chalazae? Pl
: either of two spiral bands in the white of a bird’s egg that extend from the yolk and attach to opposite ends of the lining membrane
Part of a plant ovule
Synovia
a transparent viscid lubricating fluid secreted by a membrane of an articulation, bursa, or tendon sheath
Synovial fluid
Apyrase
any of several enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP to AMP with the liberation of phosphate and energy
Quillaia quillai
Soapbark
A Chilean tree in rose family, useful for cleaning and emulsifying oils
Gonidia gonidium
an asexual reproductive cell or group of cells especially in algae (such as volvox)
Cembali
Cembalos
Harpsichord
Omphali
Pl. of omphalos
Hub, axis, focal point, epicenter, heart
Woorali
Curari curare, deadly poison that leaves no trace once injected into the blood
Oorali
Relievo
Relief
: a mode of sculpture in which forms and figures are distinguished from a surrounding plane surface
Comitia
: any of several public assemblies of the people in ancient Rome for legislative, judicial, and electoral purposes
Siganid
Of or relating to the siganidae, a family/classification of fish
Crittur
Critter 🙄🙄
Alannah
Irish exclamation
my child: used as a term of address or endearment
Jinnee
Plural form of Jin djin
Thionyl
: the bivalent radical or cation >SO of sulfurous acid : sulfinyl —used especially in names of inorganic compounds