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Adenophorea (medicine) and meagre (medicine)


Adenophorea (medicine)


adenophorea


A subclass of nematodes characterised by reduced or absent caudal papillae and an excretory system lacking lateral canals. Its organisms are usually infective to their final host.


meagre (medicine)


meagre


1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. "Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones." (Shak)

2. Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. "Meager soil." "Of secular habits and meager religious belief." (I. Taylor) "His Education had been but meager." (Motley)

3. <chemical> Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

Synonym: Thin, lean, lank, gaunt, starved, hungry, poor, emaciated, scanty, barren.

Origin: OE. Merge, F. Maigre, L. Macer; akin to D. & G. Mager, Icel. Magr, and prob. To Gr. Long. Cf. Emaciate, Maigre.

<zoology> A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. Aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a Food fish.

Alternative forms: maigre.

Origin: F. Maigre.

Source: Websters Dictionary