eranthis hyemalis
- n small Old World perennial herb grown for its bright yellow flowers which appear in early spring often before snow is gone
erasable programmable read-only memory
- n (computer science) a read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data
erasmus
- n Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)
erastianism
- n the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters
erasure
- n a correction made by erasing
there were many erasures in the typescript - n a surface area where something has been erased
another word had been written over the erasure - n deletion by an act of expunging or erasing