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huxley
  • n  English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
  • n  English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
  • n  English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
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huygens
  • n  Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695)
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huygens' principle of superposition
  • n  the displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point
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hwang ho
  • n  a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta
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hyacinth
  • n  a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone
  • n  any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs
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hyacinth bean
  • n  perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
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hyacinthaceae
  • n  one of many families or subfamilies in which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted
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hyacinthoides
  • n  small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae
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hyacinthus candicans
  • n  southern African herb with white bell-shaped flowers
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hyacinthus orientalis
  • n  widely grown for its fragrance and its white, pink, blue, or purplish flowers
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hyacinthus orientalis albulus
  • n  hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb
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hyades
  • n  (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward
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hyaena
  • n  doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
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