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Opioid
- unknown - a compound resembling opium in its effects
Orcein
- - A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, C7H7NO3, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
Orchid
- noun - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
Orchil
- noun - a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens
- any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil
Orchis
- noun - any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
Ordain
- verb - appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"
- invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"
- issue an order
- order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"
Orgyia
- - A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.
Origin
- noun - an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
Orphic
- adjective - ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"