premorse
/ˌpriːˈmɔːs/Chiefly Botany
adjective
Especially of a root: having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Cyclopaedia. From classical Latin praemorsus, past participle of praemordēre to bite at the extremity, to bite from the end from prae- + mordēre to bite.
- myristone
- myristoyl
- myristoylated
- myristoylation
- myristyl
- myristylated
- myristylation
- myrmecine
- myrmecioid
- myrmecite
- Myrmecobius
- myrmecochore
- myrmecochorous
- myrmecochory
- myrmecodomatium
- myrmecoid
- myrmecoidy
- myrmecological
- myrmecologist
- myrmecology
- myrmecomorph
- myrmecomorphic
- myrmecomorphy
- myrmecophagid
- myrmecophagous