Words that rhyme with palaeobotany

• aborigine 0
  n 1: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal] 2: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]
• accompany 0
  v 1: be present or associated with an event or entity; "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries" [syn: attach to, accompany, come with, go with] 2: go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" 3: perform an accompaniment to; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" [syn: play along, accompany, follow] 4: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]
• acrimony 0
  n 1: a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness]
• agony 0
  n 1: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture] 2: a state of acute pain [syn: agony, suffering, excruciation]
• alimony 0
  n 1: court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated [syn: alimony, maintenance]
• anemone 0
  n 1: any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: anemone, windflower] 2: marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: sea anemone, anemone]
• balcony 0
  n 1: an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium 2: a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
• botany 0
  n 1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology] 2: the branch of biology that studies plants [syn: botany, phytology]
• cacophony 0
  n 1: a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din] 2: loud confusing disagreeable sounds
• ceremony 0
  n 1: a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor" [syn: ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance] 2: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony" 3: the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"
• colony 0
  n 1: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris" [syn: colony, settlement] 2: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together 3: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States 4: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony" 5: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency] 6: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
• company 0
  n 1: an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" 2: small military unit; usually two or three platoons 3: the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship, fellowship, society] 4: organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" [syn: company, troupe] 5: a social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company" [syn: caller, company] 6: a social gathering of guests or companions; "the house was filled with company when I arrived" 7: a band of people associated temporarily in some activity; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen" [syn: party, company] 8: crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship [syn: ship's company, company] 9: a unit of firefighters including their equipment; "a hook- and-ladder company" v 1: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]
• cosmogony 0
  n 1: the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe [syn: cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny]
• cottony 0
  adj 1: resembling cotton; as soft as cotton
• destiny 0
  n 1: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate] 2: the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate] 3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
• disharmony 0
  n 1: a lack of harmony [syn: disharmony, inharmoniousness]
• funny 0
  adj 1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible] 2: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular] 3: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious] 4: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" n 1: an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" [syn: funny story, good story, funny remark, funny]
• honey 0
  adj 1: of something having the color of honey n 1: a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees 2: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment [syn: beloved, dear, dearest, honey, love] v 1: sweeten with honey
• larceny 0
  n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]
• mahogany 0
  n 1: wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture 2: any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish [syn: mahogany, mahogany tree] 3: a shade of brown with a tinge of red [syn: reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany]
• monotony 0
  n 1: the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness] 2: constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
• mutiny 0
  n 1: open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) v 1: engage in a mutiny against an authority
• tourney 0
  n 1: a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner [syn: tournament, tourney] v 1: engage in a tourney
• antigone 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death
• albany 0
  n 1: state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river [syn: Albany, capital of New York] 2: a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans
• neoteny 0
  n 1: an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
• paleobotany 0
  n 1: the study of fossil plants [syn: paleobotany, palaeobotany]
• anthony 0
  n 1: Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC) [syn: Antony, Anthony, Mark Antony, Mark Anthony, Antonius, Marcus Antonius] 2: United States suffragist (1820-1906) [syn: Anthony, Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Susan Brownell Anthony]
• theogony 0
  n 1: the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods
• astrobotany 0
• heterogony 0

See also palaeobotany definition and palaeobotany synonyms