| Adansonia |
baobab; cream-of-tartar tree
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| adapter |
arranger: a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible
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| adaptive radiation |
the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
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| adaxial |
nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface"
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| Adams' operation |
1. subcutaneous intracapsular division of the neck of the femur for ankylosis of the hip. 2. subcutaneous division of the palmar fascia at various points for Dupuytren's contracture. 3. excision of a wedge-shaped piece from the eyelid for relief of ectropion.
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