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Active
adjective · 78% connection
Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Amphipoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Aphis lion
unknown · 78% connection
The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvae of the ladyb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Appendicularia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunica…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Base pair
noun · 78% connection
one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA mole…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Berna fly
unknown · 78% connection
A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Bots
n. pl. · 78% connection
The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Caddis
noun · 78% connection
The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Cankerworm
noun · 78% connection
The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Caterpillar
noun · 78% connection
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Chalcid fly
unknown · 78% connection
One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Chalcidfly
noun · 78% connection
any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Chilopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Curvet
noun · 78% connection
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Diptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctori…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Erucifrom
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larvae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Gall
noun · 78% connection
The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
Inactive
adjective · 78% connection
Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: somewhat, like, leptus, said, active.
