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- English Word Metacarpus Definition That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
- English Word Metacenter Definition Alt. of -tre
- English Word Metacetone Definition A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
- English Word Metachloral Definition A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.
- English Word Metachronism Definition An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time.
- English Word Metachrosis Definition The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc.
- English Word Metacinnabarite Definition Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color.
- English Word Metacism Definition A defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it.
- English Word Metacrolein Definition A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.
- English Word Metacromion Definition A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.
- English Word Metadiscoidal Definition Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.
- English Word Metagastric Definition Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
- English Word Metage Definition Measurement, especially of coal.
- English Word Metage Definition Charge for, or price of, measuring.
- English Word Metagenesis Definition The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.
- English Word Metagenesis Definition Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
- English Word Metagenetic Definition Of or pertaining to metagenesis.
- English Word Metagenic Definition Metagenetic.
- English Word Metagnathous Definition Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.
- English Word Metagrammatism Definition Anagrammatism.