| fusain | Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal. Origin: F, the spindle tree; also, charcoal made from it. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| fusaric acid | <chemical> A powerful toxin produced by fungiin the genus Fusarium which damages plants, causing symptoms such a leaf wilting, browning, and inhibited enzyme production. (05 Jan 1998) |
| fusarium | <fungus> Fusarium is a genus of imperfect fungi (order Hypocreales), some members of this genus are extremely pathogenic to plants and animals. (05 Jan 1998) |
| fusarium oxysporum | <fungus> A fungal species that causes plant diseases such as pea, cotton, banana and tomato wilts. (05 Jan 1998) |
| fusarium solani | <fungus> A fungal species that causes plant diseases such as potato and squash wilts. (09 Oct 1997) |
| fuscin | <physiology> A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin. Origin: L. Fuscus dark-coloured, tawny. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fuscine | <chemistry> A dark-coloured substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fuseau | A fusiform or spindle-shaped, multiseptate macroconidium. Origin: Fr. Spindle fr. L. Fusus (05 Mar 2000) |
| fused kidney | A single, anomalous organ produced by fusion of the renal anlagen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fused silver nitrate | Silver nitrate mixed with silver chloride and allowed to dry. Usually applied to the ends of small wooden applicator sticks or made available as pencils. These are used after wetting as a caustic chemical for the removal of warts. Synonym: fused silver nitrate, lunar caustic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fused teeth | Two teeth united during development by the union of their tooth germs; the teeth may be joined by the enamel of their crowns, by their root dentin, or by both. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fusel oil | <chemistry> A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol. Origin: G. Fusel bad liquor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fuselloviridae | A family of bacteriophages containing one genus (fusellovirus). (12 Dec 1998) |
| fushi tarazu | (Japanese for too few segments), a pair rule gene of Drosophila. (18 Nov 1997) |
| fushi tarazu gene | <molecular biology> A gene found in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Normal fruit fly embryos look like a series of stacked discs, which are called segments. Each segment eventually develops into specific adult fly structures (wings, antennae, legs, eyes, etc.) Flies which have a mutant form of the ftz gene are missing every other segment. (05 Jan 1998) |