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Stylops :: Stylopodium (n.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants..

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

Pulmograde :: Pulmograde (a.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae..

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle..

Metachrosis :: Metachrosis (n.) The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc..

Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection..

Dawn :: Dawn (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

Bellows :: Bellows (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind..

Pyrometry :: Pyrometry (n.) The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat..

Expansion :: Expansion (n.) The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Dilatable :: Dilatable (a.) Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat..

Inflation :: Inflation (n.) The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement..

Expander :: Expander (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc..

Thallus :: Thallus (n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens..

Aliethmoidal :: Aliethmoidal (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

Winged :: Winged (a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

Expansion :: Expansion (n.) That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal..

Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5..

Vision :: Vision (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve..

Alinasal :: Alinasal (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

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