Words that rhyme with macrocarpous

n 1: a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead

n 1: a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories 2: seahorses [syn: Hippocampus, genus Hippocampus]

n 1: any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease 2: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Centaurus

n 1: the part of the hand between the carpus and phalanges

adj 1: having multiple uses; "a multipurpose tool"

n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Orion and Columba 2: type genus of the Leporidae: hares [syn: Lepus, genus Lepus]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles [syn: Oedipus, King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex]

n 1: Greek sculptor (4th century BC)

n 1: supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky

n 1: a mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast; believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods (9,570 feet high) [syn: Olympus, Mount Olympus, Mt. Olympus, Olimbos]

n 1: a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones [syn: wrist, carpus, wrist joint, radiocarpal joint, articulatio radiocarpea]

adj 1: producing no fruit

adj 1: (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels [ant: apocarpous]

adj 1: (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem [ant: pleurocarpous]

adj 1: (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses [ant: syncarpous]

adj 1: having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk [syn: angiocarpic, angiocarpous]

n 1: a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane [syn: polyp, polypus]