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Heteracanth :: Heteracanth (a.) Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides..

Gumbo :: Gumbo (n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic..

Seminose :: Seminose (n.) A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste..

Wart :: Wart (n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them..

Incrassate :: Incrassate (v. t.) To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts..

Jump :: Jump (v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

Clot :: Clot (v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. i.) To become thick.

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..

Pad :: Pad (n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Hemelytrum :: Hemelytrum (n.) One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc..

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

Engross :: Engross (v. t.) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity..

Incrassative :: Incrassative (a.) Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken.

Tuber :: Tuber (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous..

Callosity :: Callosity (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction..

Brain :: Brain (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three seg

Collenchyma :: Collenchyma (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

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