What is the meaning of XEN. Phrases containing XEN
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Reception of strangers; hospitality.
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The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.
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Pertaining to, derived from, designating, certain amido compounds obtained by reducing certain nitro derivatives of diphenyl.
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In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]
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A house for the reception of strangers.
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Cross fertilization.
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A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.
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Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes.
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Same as Heterogenesis.
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A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.
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An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.
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A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.
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A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.
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A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.
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One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits.
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The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.
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A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.
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of Xenium
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A cabassou.
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A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales.
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