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Ulmus Procera
- noun - broad spreading rough-leaved elm common throughout Europe and planted elsewhere
Ulteriorities
- noun - the quality of being ulterior; "their conversation was limited to ulteriorities"; "a terrible feeling of ulteriority"; "his stories were too susceptible to ulteriority"
Ultramontanes
- noun - a Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline)
Ultratropical
- - Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.
Ultrazodiacal
- - Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac.
Ulugh Muztagh
- noun - a mountain in the Kunlun range in China (25,340 feet high)
Ulysses Grant
- noun - 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
Umbelliferone
- - A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin. Its strong fluorescence under ultraviolet light makes it useful in analytical biochemistry, as, for example, to detect phosphatase activity by hydrolysis of umbelliferyl phosphate.
Umbelliferous
- adjective - relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae
Umbraculiform
- - Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped.