Words that rhyme with holum

n 1: (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means 2: a mechanism that can move automatically [syn: automaton, robot, golem]

n 1: a bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle

n 1: (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ; "the hilus of the kidney" [syn: hilus, hilum] 2: the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle

n 1: a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon)

n 1: a Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India

n 1: (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth)

n 1: a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" [syn: capitulum, head] 2: fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn [syn: ear, spike, capitulum] 3: an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree

n 1: a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease [syn: inoculant, inoculum]

n 1: capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom [syn: Jerusalem, capital of Israel]

n 1: a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Hydrus 2: any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels) 3: the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant [syn: reticulum, second stomach]

n 1: a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity [syn: celom, coelom, celoma]

n 1: spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water 2: any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form [syn: spirillum, spirilla]