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Geitonogamy

✍️ Word: Geitonogamy

📚 Definition: Pollination of a flower by another flower on the same plant

🗣 Pronunciation: jeitonokam

Irretiate

✍️ Word: Irretiate

📚 Definition: To ensnare; to trap in a net

🗣 Pronunciation: irexiate

Zygal

✍️ Word: Zygal

📚 Definition: Formed like the letter H; of, like or pertaining to a yoke or union

🗣 Pronunciation: skal

Abscissa

✍️ Word: Abscissa

📚 Definition: Horizontal distance from a fixed line to a point

🗣 Pronunciation: abssisa

Laniferous

✍️ Word: Laniferous

📚 Definition: Wool-bearing

🗣 Pronunciation: laniferous

Gal

✍️ Word: Gal

📚 Definition: Unit of acceleration of one centimeter per second per second

🗣 Pronunciation: kal

Quicklime

✍️ Word: Quicklime

📚 Definition: Calcium oxide

🗣 Pronunciation: kuiklime

Purlicue

✍️ Word: Purlicue

📚 Definition: Curl or flourish in writing; summary of speeches

🗣 Pronunciation: purlikue

Frit

✍️ Word: Frit

📚 Definition: Material from which glass is made

🗣 Pronunciation: frit

Quadrifid

✍️ Word: Quadrifid

📚 Definition: Split into four

🗣 Pronunciation: kuatrifit

Kyriolexy

✍️ Word: Kyriolexy

📚 Definition: The use of literal expressions

🗣 Pronunciation: krioleks

Digitiform

✍️ Word: Digitiform

📚 Definition: Shaped like a finger

🗣 Pronunciation: tijitiform

Encomiast

✍️ Word: Encomiast

📚 Definition: Person who utters encomiums; praiser

🗣 Pronunciation: enkomiast

Cantillate

✍️ Word: Cantillate

📚 Definition: To chant or intone

🗣 Pronunciation: kantilate

Lunate

✍️ Word: Lunate

📚 Definition: Crescent-shaped

🗣 Pronunciation: lunate

Apsidal

✍️ Word: Apsidal

📚 Definition: Shaped like an apse

🗣 Pronunciation: apsital

Varus

✍️ Word: Varus

📚 Definition: Pigeon-toed

🗣 Pronunciation: farus

Aliquant

✍️ Word: Aliquant

📚 Definition: Number dividing into another with a remainder

🗣 Pronunciation: alikuant

Virgate

✍️ Word: Virgate

📚 Definition: Rodlike; twiggy

🗣 Pronunciation: firkate

Macarism

✍️ Word: Macarism

📚 Definition: A beatitude; taking pleasure in another’s joy

🗣 Pronunciation: makarism