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(biology) Generating aflatoxin.
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(rare) Relating to an amaroid; bitter.
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A paste made of casein and water, that slowly expands, used to make a medical constrictor
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A strong poison, containing arsenic, said to have been widely used in Naples and Rome in the 17th century.
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A test for the antibacterial activity of essential oils, especially those used in aromatherapy
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(cytology) Readily stained with an azure stain
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(biology) Any of an organized array of colonial bacteria
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A form of seafood poisoning caused by eating turtles (Chelonia).
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A photosynthetic antenna complex found in green sulfur bacteria and some green filamentous anoxygenic phototrophs, differing from other antenna complexes by its large size and lack of protein matrix supporting the photosynthetic pigments.
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(biology) Any cell that contains a pigment
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A pigment-bearing cell or structure found in certain fish, reptiles, cephalopods, and other animals
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(biology) A strongly pigmented organelle or organism.
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(botany) A chromoplastid.
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(biology) Any plastid in which a pigment is synthesized or stored
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(botany, dated) Any colouring matter in plants other than chlorophyll, and especially in the petals.
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A kind of chloroplast found in glaucophytes.
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That becomes dark blue or green, typically or the retina when treated with an indocyanine dye
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(botany, of a flower) Containing an anthocyanin
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bacteriology of the cyanobacteria
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Alternative form of cyanophil [(cytology) A cell that is differentially coloured blue by a cytological dye]
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(mycology) Having cell walls that readily absorb cotton blue stain.
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(bacteriology) cyanobacterium
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(biology) Synonym of sexine
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(botany) Any colouring matter within the cells of plants.
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(medicine, bacteriology, of a bacterium) That is stained violet by Gram's method
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(biology) A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.
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(medicine, often attributively) Haemophilus aphrophilus, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (the former name of Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans), Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, Kingella kingae — five gram-negative bacilli that are typically associated with being fastidious or difficult to culture and which can cause bacterial endocarditis.
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A specialized nitrogen-fixing cell formed by some filamentous cyanobacteria.
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(obsolete) hyacinthine
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(histology) Any chromatophore that shows white in reflected light.
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A fine powder or dust composed of the spores of lycopodium and related plants. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of lightning.
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Any of a class of proteins involved in the formation of avian eggshells.
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A plastid, containing brown pigment, found in diatoms, dinoflagellates and brown algae
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(biology) Any cyanobacterium having dimensions less than about 2 micrometres
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(biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
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(biology) a bright green cyanobacterium of the class Prochlorophyta, distinguished by the presence of both chlorophyll a and b and the lack of phycobilins (and so resembling the chloroplasts of higher plants)
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Relating to pyocyanin, or to pus that is coloured blue by this pigment
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(biology) any of several transparent structures found in the chloroplast of certain algae etc.; they are responsible for the fixation of carbon dioxide and the formation of starch
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Alternative form of raphide [(botany) A crystal of calcium oxalate, shaped like a needle, which forms as a metabolic byproduct in some plant cells.]
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(of cells) Easily stained with safranine.
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Synonym of spindle poison
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A narcotic drug obtained from the dried leaves of this plant.
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