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- English Word Uraeum Definition The posterior half of an animal.
- English Word Ural Definition Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.
- English Word Ural-Altaic Definition Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
- English Word Urali Definition See Curare.
- English Word Uralian Definition Alt. of Uralic
- English Word Uralic Definition Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.
- English Word Uralite Definition Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.
- English Word Uralitization Definition The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.
- English Word Uramil Definition Murexan.
- English Word Uran-ocher Definition Alt. of Uran-ochre
- English Word Uran-ochre Definition A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.
- English Word Uran-utan Definition The orang-utang
- English Word Uranate Definition A salt of uranic acid.
- English Word Urania Definition One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
- English Word Urania Definition A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
- English Word Uranian Definition Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.
- English Word Uranic Definition Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
- English Word Uranic Definition Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.
- English Word Uranin Definition An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.
- English Word Uraninite Definition A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.