Vocabulary : Dinumeration to Dioecious
Dinumeration : Enumeration.
Diocesan : Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions. ;; A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York. ;; The clergy or the people of a diocese.
Diocese : The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Diocesener : One who belongs to a diocese.
Dioceses : of Diocese
Diodon : A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs. ;; A genus of whales.
Diodont : Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon. ;; A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.
Dioecia : A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants. ;; A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.
Dioecian : Alt. of Dioecious
Dioecious : Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.
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