| eglandular | Without glands. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| eglandulous | Without glands. Origin: L. E, without, + gland or glandula (05 Mar 2000) |
| eglantine | <botany> A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colours. The sweetbrier (R. Rubiginosa). Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to some twinning plant, perhaps the honeysuckle. "Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine." (L'Allegro, 47) "In our early writers and in Gerarde and the herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers." Origin: F. Eglantine, fr. OF. Aiglent brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. Acuculentus, fr. A dim. Of L. Acus needle; cf. F. Aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eglin C | A proteinase inhibitor (70 amino acids) from leech. (18 Nov 1997) |
| egling | <zoology> The European perch when two years old. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Eglis' glands | Small, inconstant mucous gland's of the ureter and renal pelvis. (05 Mar 2000) |