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Dehiscing
- verb - burst or split open; "flowers dehisce when they release pollen"
Dehorning
- verb - prevent the growth of horns of certain animals
- take the horns off (an animal)
Dejecting
- verb - lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
Deletions
- noun - (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
- any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
- the act of deleting something written or printed
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
Deliriant
- - A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).
Delisting
- verb - remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange
Delousing
- verb - free of lice; "They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps"
Deltasone
- noun - a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant
Delundung
- - An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.