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Epitome
- noun - a brief abstract (as of an article or book)
- a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
Epitope
- noun - the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
Epizoan
- adjective - any external parasitic organism (as fleas)
- of or relating to epizoa
Epizoic
- adjective - living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite; "an epizoic plant parasite"
Epizoon
- noun - any external parasitic organism (as fleas)
Epochal
- adjective - highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era; "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an epoch-making discovery"
Epoches
- noun - (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
- era
Eponyme
- - The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.
Eponyms
- noun - the name derived from a person (real or imaginary); "Down's syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down"
- the person for whom something is named; "Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople"
Eponymy
- noun - the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person