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Apanage
- noun - a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family; "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"
- any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"
Aptness
- noun - a disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread"
- appropriateness for the occasion; "the phrase had considerable aptness"
Epanody
- - The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.
Eponyme
- - The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.
Eponyms
- noun - the name derived from a person (real or imaginary); "Down's syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down"
- the person for whom something is named; "Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople"
Eponymy
- noun - the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person
Ipanema
- unknown - Region of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Open Up
- verb - become available; "an opportunity opened up"
- become open; "The door opened"
- cause to open or to become open; "Mary opened the car door"
- make available; "This opens up new possibilities"
- open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students"
- start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning; "open a business"
- talk freely and without inhibition
Opencut
- adjective - (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface; "opencast mining"; "an opencut iron mine"
Openers
- noun - a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
- a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens; "children are talented undoers of their shoelaces"
- the first event in a series; "she played Chopin for her opener"; "the season's opener was a game against the Yankees"