Definition of characteristic

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Characteristic (a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive..

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Race :: Race (n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition..
Homely :: Homely (n.) Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate..
Creaturely :: Creaturely (a.) Creatural; characteristic of a creature.
Gadolinium :: Gadolinium (n.) A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined..
Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..
Mimicry :: Mimicry (n.) Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism..
Heterogeneous :: Heterogeneous (a.) Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up..
Connubiality :: Connubiality (n.) The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.
Jeffersonian :: "Jeffersonian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines..
Luck :: Luck (n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill..
Patriarchal :: Patriarchal (a.) Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
Americanism :: Americanism (n.) A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.
Anisopoda :: Anisopoda (n. pl.) A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda..
Frenchism :: Frenchism (n.) A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
Brutism :: Brutism (n.) The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity..
Peculiar :: Peculiar (n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
Badge :: Badge (n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
Decyl :: Decyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series..
Childness :: Childness (n.) The manner characteristic of a child.
Paragonite :: Paragonite (n.) A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps..
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