Words that rhyme with mycotrophy

n 1: the reversal of the normal order of words [syn: anastrophe, inversion]

n 1: the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem

n 1: address to an absent or imaginary person 2: the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

n 1: a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [syn: atrophy, wasting, wasting away] 2: any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) [syn: atrophy, withering] v 1: undergo atrophy; "Muscles that are not used will atrophy"

n 1: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] 2: a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster" [syn: catastrophe, disaster] 3: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface [syn: catastrophe, cataclysm]

n 1: any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles [syn: muscular dystrophy, dystrophy] 2: any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition

n 1: abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ v 1: undergo hypertrophy; "muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids"

n 1: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school [syn: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism] 2: the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics 3: any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"

n 1: a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul

n 1: edible root of the salsify plant [syn: salsify, oyster plant] 2: Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States [syn: salsify, oyster plant, vegetable oyster, Tragopogon porrifolius] 3: either of two long roots eaten cooked

n 1: repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. [syn: epiphora, epistrophe]