any sporozoan of the order Coccidia, parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates. It is the causative agent of coccidiosis, which can be a problem in poultry rearing.
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Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants.
A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larv/ feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.
a natural family of insects including the ladybugs.
One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.
spherical; like a coccus; as, a coccoid microorganism.
a superfamily of scale insects and mealybugs.
A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.
An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
a genus of large finches.
a genus of climbing plants or shrubs.
The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.
One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebr/.
Coccygeal.
The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebr/ more or less consolidated.
an Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs.
An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
A spoon.
Spoon-shaped.
Same as Cochleate.
Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.
A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.
the crowing sound made by a rooster.
Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes; -- called also cocky-leeky.
Giddy; rash.
a bird of the Andes (Rupicola peruviana) similar to Rupicola rupicola.
See Lumpfish.
a weedy vine of Argentina (Salpichroa organifolia) having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit.
A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer.
Wearing a cockade.
A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice.
The Russian variety of bagatelle.
A small gray and white Australian parrot (Leptolophus hollandicus, formerly Calopsitta Nov/-Hollandi/) with a prominent crest; the male has bright yellow cheeks and crest, but the female has only a pale yellow in the face; -- it is so called from its note.
A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuin/, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested cockatoo (Plictolophus cristatus or Cacatua cristatus), the sulphur-crested (Cacatua galerita or Plictolophus galeritus), etc. The palm cockatoo or great black cockatoo of Australia is Probosciger aterrimus (formerly Microglossus aterrimus).
To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.
A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.
A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. Melolontha vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning; the first light of day.
A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
A young cock.
A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.
The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
A match or contest of gamecocks.
Addicted to cockfighting.
The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
Same as Cockaleekie.
Cockfighting.
A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage). The Lotium, or darnel.
A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.
Wrinkled; puckered.
One who takes and sells cockles.
One of the shells or valves of a cockle.
An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.
One who breeds gamecocks.
A cockfight.
Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively.
To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.
The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.
A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
See Coxcomb.
A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.
A kind of net to catch woodcock.
A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in /shying/ or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
A variety of Crat/gus, or hawthorn (Crat/gus Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.
a worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive.
Perfectly safe.
The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.
Peppergrass.
Pert.
See Cocoa.
A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.
A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree.
the edible white meat of a coconut{3}; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries.
A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.
An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.
A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.
a squash plant having a dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow.
Capable of being cooked.
Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.
Act of boiling.
one of the Titans.
An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
The liver of the common cod and allied species.
A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
A gatherer of cods or peas.
Lustful.
To parboil, or soften by boiling.
A gull in the plumage of its first year.
To serve as the nucleotide sequence directing the synthesis of a particular amino acid or sequence of amino acids in protein biosynthesis; as, this sequence of nucleotides encodes the hemoglobin alpha chain..
A process of discovering the content of an encoded message or the nature of a code{5}. The method used may be surreptitious, or may use sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques to discover the code.
A joint defendant.
One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.
A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.
A book, especially an early form of book with pages stitched together, contrasting with the earlier scrolls; a manuscript; as, a DaVinci codex.
A kind of fish. Same as Cod.
A miser or mean person.
Relating to a codex, or a code.
A clause added to a will.
Of the nature of a codicil.
The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.
One who codifies.
To reduce to a code, as laws.
The coarse tow of flax and hemp.
A term at omber, signifying that the game is won.
A codifier; a maker of codes.
See Coddle.
A young cod; also, a hake.
An apple fit to stew or coddle. An immature apple.
a plant of Europe and Asia (Epilobium hirsutum) having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; it was introduced into North America.
a sequence of three nucleotides in a genome or a DNA or messenger RNA molecule, which specifies the incorporation of one amino acid or is a stop signal, during the biosynthesis of proteins. Codons occur within the protein-coding segments of the DNA or RNA genome of living organisms. The amino acid sequence of proteins synthesized on ribosomes is thus determined by the sequence of the nucleotides in the genome.
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