| erostrate | <botany> Without a beak. Origin: Pref. E- out + rostrate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| erotic | Lustful; relating to sexual passion; having the quality to produce sexual arousal. Origin: G. Erotikos, relating to love, fr. Eros, love (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotic zoophilism | The deriving of sexual pleasure by patting or stroking animals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotica | Literary or artistic items having an erotic theme. It refers especially to books treating sexual love in a sensuous or voluptuous manner. (webster, 3d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
| erotism | A condition of sexual excitement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotization | The act of sexual arousal or the state of being sexually excited. Synonym: libidinization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotogenesis | The origin or genesis of sexual impulses. Origin: G. Eros, love, + genesis, origin (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotogenic | Capable of causing sexual excitement or arousal. Origin: G. Eros, love, + -gen, production (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotomania | 1. <psychiatry> Excessive or morbid inclination to erotic thoughts and behaviour. 2. The delusional belief that one is involved in a relationship with another, generally of higher socioeconomic status. Origin: G. Eros, love, + mania, frenzy (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotomanic type of paranoid disorder | The false belief that one is loved by another such as a movie star or a casual acquaintance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotopathic | Relating to erotopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotopathy | Any abnormality of the sexual impulse. Origin: G. Eros, love, + pathos, suffering (05 Mar 2000) |
| erotophobia | <psychology> Morbid aversion to the thought of sexual love and to its physical expression. Origin: G. Eros, love, + phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| ERP | <abbreviation> Early receptor potential. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erpetology | <study> The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits. Origin: Written also, but less properly, erpetology] [Gr. A creeping thing, reptile (fr. To creep): cf. F. Herpetologie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |