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- English Word Holmia Definition An oxide of holmium.
- English Word Holmium Definition A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite.
- English Word Holmos Definition A name given to a vase having a rounded body
- English Word Holmos Definition A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal.
- English Word Holmos Definition A drinking cup having a foot and stem.
- English Word Holo- Definition A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.
- English Word Holoblast Definition an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.
- English Word Holoblastic Definition Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.
- English Word Holocaust Definition A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
- English Word Holocaust Definition Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
- English Word Holocephali Definition An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Holocryptic Definition Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
- English Word Holocrystalline Definition Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
- English Word Holograph Definition A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
- English Word Holographic Definition Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.
- English Word Holohedral Definition Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.
- English Word Holohemihedral Definition Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes.
- English Word Holometabola Definition Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.
- English Word Holometabolic Definition Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.
- English Word Holometer Definition An instrument for making of angular measurements.