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HUMUS |
Organic matter |
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DNA |
Organic genetic matter |
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COMPOST |
Decaying organic matter used as fertiliser |
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PETRIFACTIVE |
Having the quality of converting organic matter into
stone; petrifying. |
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HYSTEROPHYTE |
A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or
living organic matter. |
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ZOOERYTHRINE |
A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the
feathers of various birds. |
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PETRIFY |
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic
matter by calcareous deposits. |
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VIRUS |
Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers,
the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons. |
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LOAM |
A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with
organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. |
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MOULD |
Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the
remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of
plants; soil. |
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TOADSTOOL |
A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of
the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on
decaying organic matter. |
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PETRIFACTION |
The process of petrifying, or changing into stone;
conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a
substance of stony hardness. |
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MORDANT |
Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a
twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a
bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes. |
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GROW |
To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to
increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the
living organism; -... |
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ORGANIZE |
To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure
to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized
being; organized ma... |
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METASTASIS |
...t which are not accompanied by a production of
organic matter; metabolism. ... |
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NEURINE |
A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the
decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the
putrefraction of proteid ma... |