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Anion
- noun - a negatively charged ion
Arion
- - In Greek legend, a fabulous horse, the offspring of Poseidon by Demeter (or, in other accounts, Gaea or a harpy) who to escape him had metamorphosed herself into a mare. It was successively owned by Copreus, Oncus, Heracles, and Adrastus. It possessed marvelous powers of speech, and its right feet were those of a man.
Axion
- unknown - Hypothetical elementary particle
Ilion
- noun - an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
Inion
- noun - the craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance)
Ixion
- unknown - King of Thessaly in Greek legend. Zeus punished him for attempting to seduce the God's wife, Hera, and bound him to a fiery wheel in perpetual motion in the Underworld
Onion
- noun - an aromatic flavorful vegetable
- bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
- the bulb of an onion plant
Orion
- noun - (Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation
- a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel
Prion
- noun - (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system
- Prion, also called Whalebird, any of several species of small Antarctic seabirds of the genus Pachyptila, in the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes).
Scion
- noun - a descendent or heir; "a scion of royal stock"
- A shoot or twig of a plant used to form a graft