boniface viii | (n) pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303), Syn. Benedetto Caetani |
caviidae | (n) a family of Hystricomorpha, Syn. family Caviidae |
clement vii | (n) Italian pope from 1523 to 1534 who broke with Henry VIII of England after Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn (1478-1534), Syn. Giulio de' Medici |
gaviiformes | (n) large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms, Syn. order Gaviiformes |
gaviiform seabird | (n) seabirds of the order Gaviiformes |
henry vii | (n) King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313) |
henry vii | (n) first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509), Syn. Henry Tudor |
henry viii | (n) son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547) |
innocent viii | (n) Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492), Syn. Giovanni Battista Cibo |
louis vii | (n) king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180) |
louis viii | (n) king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords (1187-1226) |
pius vii | (n) Italian pope from 1800 to 1823 who was humiliated by Napoleon and taken prisoner in 1809; he concluded a concordat with Napoleon and crowned him emperor of France; he returned to Rome in 1814 (1740-1823), Syn. Luigi Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti, Barnaba Chiaramonti |
procaviidae | (n) includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea, Syn. family Procaviidae |
reduviidae | (n) assassin bugs, Syn. family Reduviidae |
sylviidae | (n) in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers, Syn. family Sylviidae |
sylviinae | (n) alternative classification for the Old World warblers, Syn. subfamily Sylviinae |
urban viii | (n) Italian pope from 1623 to 1644 who sanctioned the condemnation of Galileo but later freed him (1568-1644), Syn. Maffeo Barberini |
antihemophilic factor | (n) a coagulation factor (trade name Hemofil) whose absence is associated with hemophilia A, Syn. antihemophilic globulin, factor VIII, antihaemophilic globulin, Hemofil, antihaemophilic factor |
assassin bug | (n) a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals, Syn. reduviid |
charles | (n) King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461), Syn. Charles VII |
edward | (n) King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972), Syn. Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII |
edward | (n) King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910), Syn. Edward VII, Albert Edward |
eight | (n) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one, Syn. 8, octad, eighter, octonary, VIII, octet, eighter from Decatur, ogdoad |
eight | (adj) being one more than seven, Syn. viii, 8 |
eighteen | (n) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one, Syn. 18, XVIII |
eighteen | (adj) being one more than seventeen, Syn. 18, xviii |
eighty-eight | (adj) being eight more than eighty, Syn. lxxxviii, 88 |
eighty-seven | (adj) being seven more than eighty, Syn. lxxxvii, 87 |
fifty-eight | (adj) being eight more than fifty, Syn. 58, lviii |
fifty-seven | (adj) being seven more than fifty, Syn. 57, lvii |
forty-eight | (adj) being eight more than forty, Syn. xlviii, 48 |
forty-seven | (adj) being seven more than forty, Syn. 47, xlvii |
gregory | (n) the Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085), Syn. Gregory VII, Hildebrand |
love vine | (n) leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax, Syn. Cuscuta gronovii |
ninety-eight | (adj) being eight more than ninety, Syn. 98, xcviii |
ninety-seven | (adj) being seven more than ninety, Syn. xcvii, 97 |
nodding groundsel | (n) plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States, Syn. Senecio bigelovii |
olfactory nerve | (n) a collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa, Syn. first cranial nerve, nervii olfactorii |
proconvertin | (n) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K, Syn. factor VII, stable factor, cothromboplastin |
seven | (n) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one, Syn. 7, heptad, septet, septenary, sevener, VII |
seven | (adj) being one more than six, Syn. vii, 7 |
seventeen | (n) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one, Syn. XVII, 17 |
seventeen | (adj) being one more than sixteen, Syn. 17, xvii |
seventy-eight | (n) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight, Syn. LXXVIII, 78 |
seventy-eight | (adj) being eight more than seventy, Syn. lxxviii, 78 |
seventy-seven | (adj) being seven more than seventy, Syn. 77, lxxvii |
sixty-eight | (adj) being eight more than sixty, Syn. lxviii, 68 |
sixty-seven | (adj) being seven more than sixty, Syn. lxvii, 67 |
sticky aster | (n) wild aster having leafy stems and flower heads with narrow bright reddish-lavender or purple rays; western Colorado to Arizona, Syn. Machaeranthera bigelovii |
thirty-eight | (adj) being eight more than thirty, Syn. xxxviii, 38 |