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Strengthener
- noun - a device designed to provide additional strength; "the cardboard backing was just a strengthener"; "he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook"
Strep Throat
- noun - an infection of the oral pharynx and tonsils by streptococcus
Strepsiceros
- noun - African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks
Strepsiptera
- - A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.
Strepsirhini
- noun - in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs
Strepsorhine
- - Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs. -- n. (Zool.) One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.
Streptococci
- noun - spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis
Streptolysin
- noun - any of several hemolysins derived from strains of streptococcus