| SAM | <abbreviation> S-adenosyl-l-methionine. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| samaj | A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, especially. Of the Brahmo-somaj. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| samandarine | A toxic alkaloid from salamanders; causes haemolysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| samara | <botany> A dry, indehiscent fruit with its wall expanded into a wing. (14 Oct 1997) |
| samarium | <chemistry> A rare metallic element of doubtful identity. Samarium was discovered, by means of spectrum analysis, in certain minerals (samarskite, cerite, etc), in which it is associated with other elements of the earthy group. It has been confounded with the donbtful elements decipium, philippium, etc, and is possibly a complex mixture of elements not as yet clearly identified. Symbol Sm. Provisional atomic weight 150.2. Origin: NL, fr. E. Samarskite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| samaroid | <botany> Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel. Origin: Samara. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| samarskite | <chemical> A rare mineral having a velvet-black colour and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals. Origin: After Samarski, a Russian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| samboo | <zoology> Same as Sumbur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sambucus | <botany> A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder. Origin: L, an elder tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sambur | <zoology> An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. Equina). Origin: Hind. Sambar, sabar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| same | 1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged. "Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end." (Ps. Cii. 27) 2. Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like. "The ethereal vigor is in all the same." (Dryden) 3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned. "What ye know, the same do I know." (Job. Xiii. 2) "Do but think how well the same he spends, who spends his blood his country to relieve." (Daniel) Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is often used substantively as in the citations above. In a comparative use it is followed by as or with. "Bees like the same odors as we do." (Lubbock) "[He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend." (Macaulay) Origin: AS. Same. Adv.; akin to OS. Sama, samo, adv, OHG. Sam, a, sama, adv, Icel. Samr, a, Sw. Samme, samma, Dan. Samme, Goth. Sama, Russ. Samui, Gr, Skr. Sama, Gr. Like, L. Simul at the same time, similis like, and E. Some, a, -some. Cf. Anomalous, Assemble, Homeopathy, Homily, Seem, Semi-, Similar, Some. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| samian | Of or pertaining to the island of Samos. "Fill high the cup with Samian wine." (Byreon) Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent. Origin: L. Samius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sammier | A machine for pressing the water from skins in tanning. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| samoa | A group of islands in the southwest central pacific, divided into american samoa and western samoa. They were discovered in 1722 by jacob roggeveen, a dutchman, visited in 1768 and named navigators islands by louis de bougainville, and visited in the 19th century by u.s. Naval officers. They were under native rulers until about 1860. Throughout the remainder of the century united states, british, and german interests figured heavily. They did not achieve independence until 1962. The name comes possibly from that of a local chieftain or from a native word meaning place of the moa, an extinct bird which might have been the totem of the natives. (12 Dec 1998) |
| samoyedes | <ethnology> An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |