innocense
- n white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California
innocent iii
- n Italian pope from 1198 to 1216 who instituted the Fourth Crusade and under whom papal intervention in European politics reached its height (1161-1216)
innocent viii
- n Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)
innocent xi
- n Italian pope from 1676 to 1689 whose papacy was marked by the struggle with Louis XIV of France over papal authority over French Catholics; known for saintliness and canonized in 1956 (1611-1689)
innocent xii
- n Italian pope from 1691 to 1700 who abolished nepotism within the church hierarchy and was universally loved for his charity and piety
innocents' day
- n December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem
innominate artery
- n a large artery arising from the arch of the aorta and divides into the right subclavian artery and the right common carotid artery; supplies the right side of the neck and head and the right shoulder and arm
innominate bone
- n large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis
innominate vein
- n veins formed by the union of the internal jugular and subclavian veins
innovation
- n a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
- n the creation of something in the mind
- n the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
innovator
- n someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art