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floe
English
Etymology
Early 19th century. Probably from Norwegian flo (“layer, slab”), from Old Norse fló (“layer”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fl??/
- Homophones: flow, Flo
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
floe (plural floes)
- A low, flat mass of floating ice.
- Synonym: ice floe
Translations
References
- American Heritage Dictionary
Anagrams
- lofe
floe From the web:
- what flies without wings
- what flies
- what flies in the thermosphere
- what flies in the sky
- what flies in the stratosphere
- what flies when it is born
- what flies eat
flox
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of "flanked by loxP"
Verb
flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)
- (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"
See also
- Floxed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Blend of fluorine +? liquid oxygen
Noun
flox (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of Flox
Verb
flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)
- (astronautics, transitive, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel.
See also
- lox
- FLOX on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- folx
Italian
Noun
flox m (invariable)
- phlox
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