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Adaptability
noun · 78% connection
the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Alluvial
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Alluvium
noun · 78% connection
Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently subm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Astragalus
noun · 78% connection
The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Barite
noun · 78% connection
Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Boncilate
noun · 78% connection
A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Bornite
noun · 78% connection
a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Canon bone
unknown · 78% connection
The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Casehardened
adjective · 78% connection
Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Crocidolite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and sod…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Dendrite
noun · 78% connection
A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Deposit
verb · 78% connection
That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the sili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Diluvial
adjective · 78% connection
Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing wa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Eburnation
noun · 78% connection
A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Elaboration
noun · 78% connection
The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Exoskeleton
noun · 78% connection
The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Formation
noun · 78% connection
Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial format…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
Freeze
verb · 78% connection
To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a lik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: changed, bone, resembling, hardened, deposits.
