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homophone
  • n  two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
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homophony
  • n  the same pronunciation for words of different origins
  • n  part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style)
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homoptera
  • n  plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects
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homopteran
  • n  insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
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homopterous insect
  • n  insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
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homosexualism
  • n  a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
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homosexuality
  • n  a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
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homospory
  • n  the development of a single kind of asexual spores
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homotherm
  • n  an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature
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homozygosity
  • n  the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene
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homozygote
  • n  (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic
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homunculus
  • n  a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
  • n  a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
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hondo
  • n  the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland
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