| alloxanate | <chemistry> A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| alloxanic | <chemistry> Of or pertaining to alloxan; applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alloxantin | <chemistry> A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alloxazine | Isomer of isoalloxazine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alloxuraemia | The presence of purine bases in the blood. Origin: alloxan + G. Haima, blood (05 Mar 2000) |
| alloxuria | The presence of purine bodies in the urine. Origin: alloxan + G. Ouron, urine (05 Mar 2000) |
| alloy | <chemistry> A substance made from a mixture of a metal and one or more other metals or non-metallic elements. (09 Oct 1997) |
| alloys | A mixture of metallic elements or compounds with other metallic or metalloid elements in varying proportions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| allozyme | <biochemistry> Variant of an enzyme coded by a different allele. See: isoenzyme. (18 Nov 1997) |
| allspice | The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), Synonym: spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| allspice oil | pimenta oil |
| allulose | An obsolete term for psicose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alluvial | Relating to something in streams and rivers or created/deposited by stream action. Describes materials deposited by running water. (09 Oct 1997) |
| alluvion | 1. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank. 2. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. 3. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. "The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains." (R. Cobden) 4. An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion. Origin: F. Alluvion, L. Alluvio, fr. Alluere to wash against; ad + luere, equiv. To lavare, to wash. See Lave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alluvium | Origin: L, neut. Of alluvius. See Alluvious. <geology> Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |