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Geotropism
- noun - an orienting response to gravity
Haustorium
- noun - a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host
Horologium
- unknown - constellation in the southern sky at about 3 hours right ascension and 50° south in declination. Its brightest star is Alpha Horologii, with a magnitude of 3.9.
Huastorium
- - a rootlike attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host.
Hypocorism
- noun - a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix); "`Billy' is a hypocorism for `William'"
Katabolism
- noun - breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
Lycopodium
- noun - type and sole genus of the Lycopodiaceae; erect or creeping evergreen plants often used for Christmas decorations
Marcionism
- noun - the Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human
Mesopodium
- - The middle portion of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.