hairy vetch
- n European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
haematite
- n the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form
habitat
- n the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
a marine habitat
habitation
- n the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
- n housing that someone is living in
- n the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony
habitual abortion
- n repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason)
habitual criminal
- n someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
habituation
- n being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- n a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
habitus
- n person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease)
the consumptive habitus - n constitution of the human body