See Also: concrescence(medicine)
concrescence(dictionary)

ominous (oh) and concrescence (iou)


ominous (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: ominosus, from omen]
making you feel that something bad is going to happen
::'How long will she be ill?' he asked. There was an ominous silence .
::The car is making an ominous rattling sound.
-- ominously adv
::The sky looked ominously dark.

concrescence (iou)



concrescence noun. E17.
[from CON- + -crescence, after excrescence etc.]
Growth by assimilation. Only in E17.
A concretion. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
Biology. The coalescence or growing together of parts originally separate; spec. that of the lips of the blastopore to form the body of an embryo. L19.
concrescent adjective growing together E20.