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61stoma — stomal, adj. /stoh meuh/, n., pl. stomata /stoh meuh teuh, stom euh , stoh mah teuh/, stomas. 1. Also, stomate. Bot. any of various small apertures, esp. one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which… …
62stomate — /stoh mayt/, n. stoma (def. 1). [perh. by back formation from STOMATA, based on an assumed NL sing. *stomatum; see ATE1] * * * ▪ plant anatomy also called Stoma, plural Stomata, or Stomas, any of the microscopic openings or pores in the… …
63tumid — tumidity, tumidness, n. tumidly, adv. /tooh mid, tyooh /, adj. 1. swollen, or affected with swelling, as a part of the body. 2. pompous or inflated, as language; turgid; bombastic. 3. seeming to swell; bulging. [1535 45; < L tumidus swollen,… …
64Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
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66orotund — I adjective affected, artificial, blustering, bombastic, clear, declamatory, elocutionary, flatulent, forceful, full, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, mellow, oratorical, pompous, presumptuous,… …
67bloat — blōt vt : to make turgid: a) to produce edema in b) to cause or result in accumulation of gas in the digestive tract of <cucumbers sometimes bloat me> c) to cause abdominal distension in vi to become turgid bloat n 1) a digestive… …
68tumescent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. swelling, tumid. See convexity. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. swollen, distended, bloated, turgid, puffed up, enlarged, tumid, *ballooned out, bulging. ANT.: limp, flaccid, deflated III (Roget s… …
69tumid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. turgid, swollen, distended, enlarged; protuberant, bulging; bombastic, pompous, inflated; teeming, bursting. See convexity, expansion. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Swollen] Syn. bulging, distended,… …
70inflated — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. distended, swollen, puffed, puffed up, extended, filled, grown, stretched, dilated, spread, enlarged, amplified, augmented, pumped up, overblown, blown up, exaggerated, exalted, bloated, full, crammed, aggrandized,… …
