homologous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Ever wonder why we're not just happy, we're happy as a clam? Or why draw a blank means forget? Or why jumbo and not big? orijinz the new word and phrase card game is getting rave reviews! Great, great, GREAT word game!" "infectious" "So much Fun" "Best game for thinking adults in a long time." "We had a blast" A great stocking stuffer and holiday gift. Only $14.95.
Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 10, 2008 homologous \huh-MOL-uh-guhs; hoh-\, adjective: 1. corresponding in position, proportion, structure, value, or other property 2. in biology, corresponding in type of structure and in origin but not necessarily in appearance or function 3. in chemistry, belonging to a series where successive members differ regularly in formula, especially a series of organic compounds differing by multiples of CH2, such as the alcohols and aldehydes A human hand, a bird's wing and a whale's flipper are all homologous structures, she explains, in that each represents an evolutionary modification of the same ancestral limb structure. -- John Noble Wilford, But Will It Fly?" review of Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight, by Pat Shipman, New York Times, 1/25/1998 Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. -- Clothes," review of Narcissus: An Anatomy of Clothes, by Gerald Heard-Dutton, Time, 1/12/1925 by 1660, from Greek homologos "agreeing, of one mind," from homos "same" + logos "relation, reasoning, computation," related to legein "reckon, select, speak" Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for homologous Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
Ever wonder why we're not just happy, we're happy as a clam? Or why draw a blank means forget? Or why jumbo and not big? orijinz the new word and phrase card game is getting rave reviews! Great, great, GREAT word game!" "infectious" "So much Fun" "Best game for thinking adults in a long time." "We had a blast" A great stocking stuffer and holiday gift. Only $14.95.
Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: mayorjfvalley@gmail.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-13387731-6044678G@lists.lexico.com To subscribe to Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2008 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to The Word of the Day can be turned on and off via the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/   Tell a friend about The Word of the Day!