Ametabola :: Ametabola (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

Ametabolian :: Ametabolian (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

Ametabolic :: Ametabolic (a.) Alt. of Ametabolou.

Ametabolous :: Ametabolous (a.) Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects..

Antimetabole :: Antimetabole (n.) A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

Hemimetabola :: Hemimetabola (n. pl.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.

Hemimetabolic :: Hemimetabolic (a.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches..

Holometabola :: Holometabola (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Holometabolic :: Holometabolic (a.) Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees..

Katabolic :: Katabolic (a.) Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability..

Katabolism :: Katabolism (n.) Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

Metabola :: Metabola (n.) Alt. of Metabol.

Metabola :: Metabola (n. pl.) Alt. of Metaboli.

Metabole :: Metabole (n.) A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment..

Metabolia :: Metabolia (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis..

Metabolian :: Metabolian (n.) An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.

Metabolic :: Metabolic (a.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change..

Metabolic :: Metabolic (a.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force..

Metabolisis :: Metabolisis (n.) Metabolism.

Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..

Metabolite :: Metabolite (n.) A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea..

Metabolize :: Metabolize (v. t. & i.) To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Taboo :: Taboo (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction..

Taboo :: Taboo (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals..

Tabooed :: Tabooed (imp. & p. p.) of Tabo.

Tabooing :: Tabooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabo.

Tabor :: Tabor (n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person..

Tabor :: Tabor (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum..

Tabor :: Tabor (v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently.

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