Definition and meaning of advanced:

advanced - new, unlike the evolutionary ancestral or primitive condition

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Definition and meaning of adventitious:

adventitious - accidental or acquired; not natural or hereditary; found somewhere other than in the normal or usual place; additional

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Definition and meaning of aeolian:

aeolian - pertaining to the erosion, transport, and deposition of materials by wind

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Definition and meaning of aeration:

aeration - the addition of air to a liquid

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Definition and meaning of adenose:

adenose - glandular

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Definition and meaning of adhesion:

adhesion - the molecular force of attraction between two unlike materials that acts to hold them together

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Definition and meaning of adient:

adient - tending toward or approaching a source of stimulation

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Definition and meaning of adipocyte:

adipocyte - a fat cell

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Definition and meaning of admedial:

admedial - near the medial plane

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Definition and meaning of adnate:

adnate - joined together

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Definition and meaning of adoral:

adoral - near or toward the mouth

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Definition and meaning of adpressed:

adpressed - pressed close to or lying flat against something; apressed

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Definition and meaning of adsorbent:

adsorbent - the solid substrate material onto which a substance is adsorbed

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Definition and meaning of adaxial:

adaxial - situated on the side of, or facing toward an axis

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Definition and meaning of adcauline:

adcauline - pertaining to hydrozoan polyps that bend towards, or are near to the common stem

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Definition and meaning of addorsal:

addorsal - close to, but not on the middle of the dorsal surface

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Definition and meaning of adductor:

adductor - a type of muscle whose function is to pull an appendage or body part inwards, towards the body of an animal

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Definition and meaning of adeniform:

adeniform - gland-shaped; resembling a gland

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Definition and meaning of acanthaceous:

acanthaceous - being armed with spines or other pointed projections

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Definition and meaning of Acanthaster:

Acanthaster - the Crown-of-Thorns starfish genus. Acanthaster planci is a voracious Indo-Pacific predator of corals

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Definition and meaning of acantho-:

acantho- - a prefix meaning "with spines"

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Definition and meaning of acanthocaulus:

acanthocaulus - a juvenile coral of some species that is attached to the substrate either directly or on a stalk

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