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Expansion :: Expansion (n.) The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Expanding :: Expanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expan.

Minie Ball :: Minie ball () A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel..

Dilator :: Dilator (n.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator..

Bell-mouthed :: Bell-mouthed (a.) Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun..

Florescent :: Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

Wheel-shaped :: Wheel-shaped (a.) Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla..

Ferrule :: Ferrule (n.) A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth..

Expanding :: Expanding (a.) That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging..

Expander :: Expander (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Corymb :: Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn..

Hypocraterimorphous :: Hypocraterimorphous (a.) Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac..

Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..

Funnelform :: Funnelform (a.) Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform..

Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (a.) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit..

Intumescent :: Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.

Development :: Development (n.) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.

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