Acheron :: Acheron (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf..

Acherontic :: Acherontic (a.) Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund..

Anantherous :: Anantherous (a.) Destitute of anthers.

Antherogenous :: Antherogenous (a.) Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower..

Antheroid :: Antheroid (a.) Resembling an anther.

Antherozoid :: Antherozoid (n.) Alt. of Antherozooi.

Antherozooid :: Antherozooid (n.) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

Atheroid :: Atheroid (a.) Shaped like an ear of grain.

Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.

Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Atheromatous :: Atheromatous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma..

Atmospherology :: Atmospherology (n.) The science or a treatise on the atmosphere.

Cherogril :: Cherogril (n.) See Cony.

Cherokees :: Cherokees (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes..

Cheroot :: Cheroot (n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco..

Eleuthero-petalous :: Eleuthero-petalous (a.) Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower..

Eleutheromania :: Eleutheromania (n.) A mania or frantic zeal for freedom.

Eleutheromaniac :: Eleutheromaniac (a.) Mad for freedom.

Etherol :: Etherol (n.) An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin..

Gynantherous :: Gynantherous (a.) Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils..

Hemispheroid :: Hemispheroid (n.) A half of a spheroid.

Hemispheroidal :: Hemispheroidal (a.) Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form..

Hero :: Hero (n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules..

Hero :: Hero (n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person..

Hero :: Hero (n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid..

Herodian :: Herodian (n.) One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ..

Herodiones :: Herodiones (n. pl.) A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii..

Heroes :: Heroes (pl. ) of Her.

Heroess :: Heroess (n.) A heroine.

Heroic :: Heroic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor..

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