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Hemigamous
- - Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.
Hemihedral
- - Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.
Hemihedron
- - A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron.
Hemiplegia
- noun - paralysis of one side of the body
Hemiplegic
- noun - a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body)
Hemipteran
- noun - insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
Hemipteron
- noun - insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
Hemisphere
- noun - either half of the cerebrum
- half of a sphere
- half of the terrestrial globe
Hemoglobin
- noun - a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues; "fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals"
Hemolysins
- noun - any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin