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Ooecium
- - One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.
Opacify
- verb - become opaque; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind"
- make opaque; "The glass was opacified more greater privacy"
Opacity
- noun - incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
- the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
- the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
Opaline
- adjective - having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
- Noun: whitish or coloured glass
Opalise
- verb - make opalescent
- replace or convert into opal; "opalized tree trunks"
Opalize
- verb - make opalescent
- replace or convert into opal; "opalized tree trunks"
Opening
- verb - a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- a possible alternative; "bankruptcy is always a possibility"
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess; "he memorized all the important chess openings"
- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"
- afford access to; "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace"
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart"
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"
- become available; "an opportunity opened up"
- become open; "The door opened"
- becoming open or being made open; "the opening of his
Opetide
- - Open time; -- applied to different things: (a) The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening. [Archaic] Nares. (b) The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday wherein marriages were formerly solemnized publicly in churches. [Eng.] (c) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Opining
- verb - expect, believe, or suppose;
- express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting"