Name Report For First Name OMA:
OMA
First name OMA's origin is Irish. OMA means "the color of olive". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with OMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of oma.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with OMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with OMA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming OMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES OMA AS A WHOLE:
ifeoma andromache neoma roma xiomara donoma lomahongva poloma romanitza abracomas britomartus egomas bomani omari kirkkomaki tuomas iomar oenomaus thomas soma algoma dagomar lomasi nakoma omah omat omayda paloma saloma thomasin tomasina tomasine beomann carlomagno coman geomar giomar jomar loman omar omawnakw othomann roman romano thoma wokaihwokomas xiomar yoman diomasach yeoman toman teoma tomas thenoma romana romaine fraomar leoma romain fomaNAMES RHYMING WITH OMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama fatuma halima mariama neema salama esma alima asima huma lama na'ima numa ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma thelma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma ruma sarama sharama uma vema gulielma massima kimama shima adima juma lema tessema usama chuma jorma adharma alma aluma arama delma dharma dreama elma ema emma eskama faoiltiama fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma kuwanyauma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nehama okimma purisima salma selima sima suma tama telma temima velma wilma winema yarima zelma bama blathma cha'tima sakima yarema yuma amma baseema rama cosimaNAMES RHYMING WITH OMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (om) - Names That Begins with om:
omeet omer omet omette ominotago ommar omorose omphale omran omusa omyrahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH OMA:
First Names which starts with 'o' and ends with 'a':
o'shea oana oba obelia ocelfa octa octavia octha oda odakota odanda odeda odeletta odelia odelina odelinda odella odelyna odessa odiana odila odilia odra odysseia offa ofra ogaleesha oifa okhmhaka okpara oksana ola oldwina oleda oleisia olena oleta oletha olexa olga oliana olimpia olina olinda olita oliveria olivia olya olympia ona onawa onella onida onora oona opalina ophelia ophra oppida ora ordella orea orelia orenda oria oriana orianna orithyia orla orlena orlina ornetta orquidea orquidia ortygia orva orzora osana osberga osburga osla osra otha othma otka ottavia otthilda ottila ottilia otylia ovadya oxa oya ozannaEnglish Words Rhyming OMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES OMA AS A WHOLE:
| aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
| abomasum | noun (n.) Alt. of Abomasus |
| abomasus | noun (n.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia. |
| accustomable | adjective (a.) Habitual; customary; wonted. |
| accustomance | noun (n.) Custom; habitual use. |
| accustomary | adjective (a.) Usual; customary. |
| achromatic | adjective (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors. |
| adjective (a.) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. |
| achromaticity | noun (n.) Achromatism. |
| achromatin | noun (n.) Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. |
| achromatism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. |
| achromatization | noun (n.) The act or process of achromatizing. |
| achromatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Achromatize |
| achromatopsy | noun (n.) Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism. |
| acritochromacy | noun (n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy. |
| aeromancy | noun (n.) Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather. |
| alectoromachy | noun (n.) Cockfighting. |
| alectoromancy | noun (n.) See Alectryomancy. |
| alectryomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. |
| aleuromancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of flour. |
| alomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of salt. |
| angioma | noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels. |
| noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood or lymph vessels. |
| anglomania | noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. |
| anglomaniac | noun (n.) One affected with Anglomania. |
| anidiomatical | adjective (a.) Not idiomatic. |
| anomal | noun (n.) Anything anomalous. |
| anomaliped | noun (n.) One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Anomalipede |
| anomalipede | adjective (a.) Having anomalous feet. |
| anomalism | noun (n.) An anomaly; a deviation from rule. |
| anomalistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anomalistical |
| anomalistical | adjective (a.) Irregular; departing from common or established rules. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. |
| anomaloflorous | adjective (a.) Having anomalous flowers. |
| anomalous | adjective (a.) Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding. |
| anomalousness | noun (n.) Quality of being anomalous. |
| anomaly | noun (n.) Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. |
| noun (n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform. | |
| noun (n.) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet. | |
| noun (n.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type. |
| antestomach | noun (n.) A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. |
| anthomania | noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers. |
| anthracomancy | noun (n.) Divination by inspecting a burning coal. |
| anthropomancy | noun (n.) Divination by the entrails of human being. |
| antonomasia | noun (n.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. |
| antonomastic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. |
| antonomasy | noun (n.) Antonomasia. |
| archaeostomatous | adjective (a.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up. |
| arithmomancy | noun (n.) Arithmancy. |
| aroma | noun (n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius. |
| aromatic | noun (n.) A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Aromatical |
| aromatical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam. |
| aromatization | noun (n.) The act of impregnating or secting with aroma. |
| aromatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aromatize |
| aromatizer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH OMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - English Words That Ends with ma:
| aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| alma | noun (n.) Alt. of Almah |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| amma | noun (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother. |
| amphiuma | noun (n.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. |
| analemma | noun (n.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon. |
| noun (n.) An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems. | |
| noun (n.) A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe. |
| anathema | noun (n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. |
| noun (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. | |
| noun (n.) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. |
| angienchyma | noun (n.) Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels. |
| anhima | noun (n.) A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi. |
| antepenultima | noun (n.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable. |
| arapaima | noun (n.) A large fresh-water food fish of South America. |
| asthma | noun (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration. |
| atheroma | noun (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter. |
| noun (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries. |
| adenoma | noun (n.) A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. |
| adipoma | noun (n.) A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. |
| aerenchyma | noun (n.) A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces. |
| bema | noun (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. |
| noun (n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel. | |
| noun (n.) Erroneously: A pulpit. |
| blastema | noun (n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows. |
| bothrenchyma | noun (n.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood. |
| brahma | noun (n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. |
| noun (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra. |
| brama | noun (n.) See Brahma. |
| branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
| bregma | noun (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull. |
| broma | noun (n.) Aliment; food. |
| noun (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. |
| carcinoma | noun (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. |
| cariama | noun (n.) A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema. |
| cauma | noun (n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever. |
| ceroma | noun (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans. |
| noun (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves. | |
| noun (n.) The cere of birds. |
| chacma | noun (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.] |
| chiasma | noun (n.) A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves. |
| chiloma | noun (n.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel. |
| chilostoma | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Chilostomata |
| chloasma | noun (n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots. |
| chondroma | noun (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth. |
| cima | noun (n.) A kind of molding. See Cyma. |
| coenenchyma | noun (n.) The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral. |
| collenchyma | noun (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated. |
| coma | noun (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus. |
| noun (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. | |
| noun (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. |
| comma | noun (n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed. |
| noun (n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. |
| condyloma | noun (n.) Alt. of Condylome |
| cosmorama | noun (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality. |
| croma | noun (n.) A quaver. |
| curcuma | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). |
| cyclorama | noun (n.) A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially. |
| cyclostoma | noun (n. pl.) A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures. |
| cyma | noun (n.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form. |
| noun (n.) A cyme. See Cyme. |
| cytoblastema | noun (n.) See Protoplasm. |
| coloboma | noun (n.) A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft. |
| derma | noun (n.) See Dermis. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH OMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (om) - Words That Begins with om:
| omagra | noun (n.) Gout in the shoulder. |
| omahas | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska. |
| omasum | noun (n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant. |
| omber | noun (n.) Alt. of Ombre |
| ombre | noun (n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons. |
| noun (n.) A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine. |
| ombrometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge. |
| omega | noun (n.) The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha. |
| noun (n.) The last; the end; hence, death. |
| omegoid | adjective (a.) Having the form of the Greek capital letter Omega (/). |
| omelet | noun (n.) Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet. |
| omen | noun (n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury. |
| verb (v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise. |
| omening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Omen |
| omened | adjective (a.) Attended by, or containing, an omen or omens; as, happy-omened day. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Omen |
| omental | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta. |
| omentum | noun (n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon. |
| omer | noun (n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah. |
| omiletical | adjective (a.) Homiletical. |
| omination | noun (n.) The act of ominating; presaging. |
| ominous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. |
| omissible | adjective (a.) Capable of being omitted; that may be omitted. |
| omission | noun (n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty. |
| noun (n.) That which is omitted or is left undone. |
| omissive | adjective (a.) Leaving out; omitting. |
| omitting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Omit |
| omittance | noun (n.) The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. |
| omitter | noun (n.) One who omits. |
| ommateal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an ommateum. |
| ommateum | noun (n.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans. |
| ommatidium | noun (n.) One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates. |
| omnibus | noun (n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances. |
| noun (n.) A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts. |
| omnicorporeal | adjective (a.) Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. |
| omniety | noun (n.) That which is all-pervading or all-comprehensive; hence, the Deity. |
| omnifarious | adjective (a.) Of all varieties, forms, or kinds. |
| omniferous | adjective (a.) All-bearing; producing all kinds. |
| omnific | adjective (a.) All-creating. |
| omniform | adjective (a.) Having every form or shape. |
| omniformity | noun (n.) The condition or quality of having every form. |
| omnigenous | adjective (a.) Consisting of all kinds. |
| omnigraph | noun (n.) A pantograph. |
| omniparient | adjective (a.) Producing or bringing forth all things; all-producing. |
| omniparity | noun (n.) Equality in every part; general equality. |
| omniparous | adjective (a.) Producing all things; omniparient. |
| omnipatient | adjective (a.) Capable of enduring all things. |
| omnipercipience | noun (n.) Alt. of Omnipercipiency |
| omnipercipiency | noun (n.) Perception of everything. |
| omnipercipient | adjective (a.) Perceiving everything. |
| omnipotence | noun (n.) Alt. of Omnipotency |
| omnipotency | noun (n.) The state of being omnipotent; almighty power; hence, one who is omnipotent; the Deity. |
| noun (n.) Unlimited power of a particular kind; as, love's omnipotence. |
| omnipotent | adjective (a.) Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. |
| adjective (a.) Having unlimited power of a particular kind; as, omnipotent love. |
| omnipresence | noun (n.) Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. |
| omnipresency | noun (n.) Omnipresence. |
| omnipresent | adjective (a.) Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitous; as, the omnipresent Jehovah. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH OMA:
English Words which starts with 'o' and ends with 'a':
| oblongata | noun (n.) The medulla oblongata. |
| oca | noun (n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers. |
| ochrea | noun (n.) A greave or legging. |
| noun (n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem. |
| ocra | noun (n.) See Okra. |
| ocrea | noun (n.) See Ochrea. |
| octandria | noun (n.pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil. |
| octocera | noun (n.pl.) Octocerata. |
| octocerata | noun (n.pl.) A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda. |
| octogynia | noun (n.pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils. |
| octopoda | noun (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata. |
| noun (n.pl.) Same as Arachnida. |
| octopodia | noun (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata. |
| oculina | noun (n.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture. |
| oculinacea | noun (n.pl.) A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles. |
| odonata | noun (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies. |
| odontalgia | noun (n.) Toothache. |
| odontophora | noun (n.pl.) Same as Cephalophora. |
| oedema | noun (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. |
| oenomania | noun (n.) Delirium tremens. |
| noun (n.) Dipsomania. |
| oinomania | noun (n.) See oenomania. |
| okra | noun (n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. |
| noun (n.) The pods of the plant okra, used as a vegetable; also, a dish prepared with them; gumbo. |
| olea | noun (n.) A genus of trees including the olive. |
| oligochaeta | noun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species. |
| oliva | noun (n.) A genus of polished marine gastropod shells, chiefly tropical, and often beautifully colored. |
| olla | noun (n.) A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay. |
| noun (n.) A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida. |
| omnivora | noun (n. pl.) A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds. |
| onagga | noun (n.) The dauw. |
| onomatopoeia | noun (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire. |
| onycha | noun (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus. |
| noun (n.) The precious stone called onyx. |
| onychia | noun (n.) A whitlow. |
| noun (n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail. |
| onychophora | noun (n. pl.) Malacopoda. |
| ootheca | noun (n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium. |
| oozoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Acrita. |
| opera | noun (n.) A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama. |
| noun (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music. | |
| noun (n.) The house where operas are exhibited. | |
| (pl. ) of Opus |
| opercula | noun (n. pl.) See Operculum. |
| (pl. ) of Operculum |
| operetta | noun (n.) A short, light, musical drama. |
| ophidia | noun (n. pl.) The order of reptiles which includes the serpents. |
| (pl. ) of Ophidion |
| ophiomorpha | noun (n. pl.) An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia. |
| ophiura | noun (n.) A genus of ophiurioid starfishes. |
| ophiurida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Ophiurioidea. |
| ophiurioidea | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Ophiuroidea |
| ophiuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star. |
| ophthalmia | noun (n.) An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball. |
| opisthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Opisthobranchiata |
| opisthobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs. |
| opisthoglypha | noun (n. pl.) A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs. |
| optocoelia | noun (n.) The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. |
| opuntia | noun (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig. |
| oquassa | noun (n.) A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout. |
| ora | noun (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling. |
| (pl. ) of Os |
| orbicula | noun (n.) Same as Discina. |
| orbulina | noun (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell. |
| orchestra | noun (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians. |
| noun (n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians. | |
| noun (n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement. | |
| noun (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos. | |
| noun (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like. | |
| noun (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments. |
| oreosoma | noun (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface. |
| organista | noun (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song. |
| orgyia | noun (n.) 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. |
| ornithodelphia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Monotremata. |
| ornithopoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| ornithosauria | noun (n. pl.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria. |
| ornithoscelida | noun (n. pl.) A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds. |
| orthopn/a | noun (n.) Alt. of Orthopny |
| orthopoda | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet, pelvis, and other parts. |
| orthoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect. |
| oryza | noun (n.) A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice. |
| oscillaria | noun (n.) A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria. |
| oscillatoria | noun (n. pl.) Same as Oscillaria. |
| osteocolla | noun (n.) A kind of glue obtained from bones. |
| noun (n.) A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones. |
| osteocomma | noun (n.) A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra. |
| osteoma | noun (n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone. |
| osteomalacia | noun (n.) A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia. |
| osteosarcoma | noun (n.) A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone. |
| osteozoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Vertebrata. |
| ostracea | noun (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells. |
| ostracoda | noun (n. pl.) Ostracoidea. |
| ostracoidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about. |
| ostrea | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters. |
| otalgia | noun (n.) Pain in the ear; earache. |
| otorrh/a | noun (n.) A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge. |
| ova | noun (n. pl.) See Ovum. |
| (pl. ) of Ovum |
| oversea | adjective (a.) Beyond the sea; foreign. |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Overseas |
| ovipara | noun (n. pl.) An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara. |
| ovoplasma | noun (n.) Yolk; egg yolk. |
| oxyammonia | noun (n.) Same as Hydroxylamine. |
| oxyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Oxyopy |
| oxyrhyncha | noun (n. pl.) The maioid crabs. |
| ozena | noun (n.) A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose. |
| ocarina | noun (n.) A kind of small simple wind instrument. |
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