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Monogyny
- noun - having only one wife at a time
Mutagens
- noun - any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Nonagons
- noun - a nine-sided polygon
Obliging
- verb - bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
- force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"
- Helpful
- provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him"
- showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave"
Octagons
- noun - an eight-sided polygon
Oncogene
- noun - a gene that disposes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells
Ontogeny
- noun - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
- developmental history of an organism in its own lifetime
Ortygans
- noun - any of several East Indian birds
Osmogene
- - An apparatus, consisting of a number of cells whose sides are of parchment paper, for conducting the process of osmosis. It is used especially in sugar refining to remove potassium salts from the molasses.
Paragons
- noun -
- a flawless diamond over 100 carats
- an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept