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hypoxia
  • n  oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency
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hypoxic hypoxia
  • n  hypoxia resulting from defective oxygenation of the blood in the lungs
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hypoxidaceae
  • n  in some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae
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hypoxis
  • n  small plants that resemble amaryllis and that grow from a corm and bear flowers on a leafless stalk; sometimes classified as member of the family Amaryllidaceae: star grass
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hypozeugma
  • n  use of a series of subjects with a single predicate
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hypozeuxis
  • n  use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered')
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hypsiglena torquata
  • n  nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico
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hypsiprymnodon moschatus
  • n  small kangaroo of northeastern Australia
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hypsography
  • n  the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level)
  • n  measurement of the elevation of land above sea level
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hypsometer
  • n  an altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation
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hypsometry
  • n  measurement of the elevation of land above sea level
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hyrax
  • n  any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
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