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Splitter

One who, or that which, splits.

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Jack 76% connected

A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves en…

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Laborer 76% connected

One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

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Systematist 76% connected

One who forms a system, or reduces to system.

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Taxonomist 76% connected

One skilled in taxonomy.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Rive 74% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rive 74% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Divider 92% connected

One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Activator noun · 71% connection

(biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the pr…

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Anisogamy noun · 71% connection

(biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size)

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Cataplasia noun · 71% connection

(biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form

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Cell noun · 71% connection

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may…

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Cell doctrine noun · 71% connection

(biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms; proposed in 1838 by Matt…

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Cell theory noun · 71% connection

(biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms; proposed in 1838 by Matt…

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Cybernetics noun · 71% connection

(biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in…

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Elan vital noun · 71% connection

(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of orga…

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Form family noun · 71% connection

(biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure; ranked between order and genus

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Form genus noun · 71% connection

(biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure; forms the first half of a specie…

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Isogamy noun · 71% connection

(biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of gametes of the same size and structure

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Isomorphy noun · 71% connection

(biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure

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Life force noun · 71% connection

(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of orga…

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Mutant noun · 71% connection

(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

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Organic evolution noun · 71% connection

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

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Phylogenetic relation noun · 71% connection

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Bivalve noun · 78% connection

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

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Caltrop noun · 78% connection

tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed

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Division noun · 78% connection

discord that splits a group

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Earthstar noun · 78% connection

A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball cont…

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Fission noun · 78% connection

a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

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Flag noun · 78% connection

Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

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Hyaluronidase noun · 78% connection

an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective ti…

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Hyazyme noun · 78% connection

an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective ti…

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Idealisation noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Idealization noun · 78% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Legume noun · 78% connection

the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seed…

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Morula noun · 78% connection

a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula

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Nuclear fission noun · 78% connection

a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

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Pepsin noun · 78% connection

an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones

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River noun · 78% connection

One who rives or splits.

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Schizocarp noun · 78% connection

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

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Septicidal adjective · 78% connection

Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its compon…

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Slate verb · 78% connection

An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

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