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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"
Orthid
- - A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae.
Orthis
- - An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.
Orudis
- noun - nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Orudis or Orudis KT or Oruvail)
Osiris
- noun - Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus
Ossein
- - The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; bone collagen; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.
Otaria
- noun - type genus of the Otariidae