"Phyma" is a word in ENGLISH
A tubercle on any external part of the body.
(...)Through the ship's telescopes, he had watched the death of the solar system. With his own eyes, he had seen the volcanoes of Mars erupt for the first time in a billion years; Venus briefly naked as her atmosphere was blasted into space before she herself was consumed; the gas giants exploding into incandescent fireballs. But these were empty, meaningless spectacles compared with the tragedy of Earth.That, too, he had watched through the lenses of cameras that had survived a few minutes longer than the devoted men who had sacrificed the last moments of their lives to set them up. He had seen ...... the Great Pyramid, glowing dully red before it slumped into a puddle of molten stone ...... the floor of the Atlantic, baked rock-hard in seconds, before it was submerged again, by the lava gushing from the volcanoes of the Mid-ocean Rift...... the Moon rising above the flaming forests of Brazil and now itself shining almost as brilliantly as had the Sun, on its last setting, only minutes before ...... the continent of Antarctica emerging briefly after its long burial, as the kilometres of ancient ice were burned away ...... the mighty central span of the Gibraltar Bridge, melting even as it slumped downward through the burning air ...In that last century the Earth was haunted with ghosts - not of the dead, but of those who now could never be born. For five hundred years the birthrate had been held at a level that would reduce the human population to a few millions when the end finally came. Whole cities - even countries - had been deserted as mankind huddled together for History's closing act.
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A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a …
Read the complete definitionAn extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
Read the complete definitionGirt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.
Read the complete definitionA remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.
Read the complete definitionA band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.
Read the complete definitionHaving tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.
Read the complete definitionA large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes …
Read the complete definitionA tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebr/; a mammillary process.
Read the complete definitionOne of the small tubercles of Echini.
Read the complete definitionSmall and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.
Read the complete definitionA genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.
Read the complete definitionOne of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.
Read the complete definitionOne of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
Read the complete definitionA very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large, bright …
Read the complete definitionA limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding …
Read the complete definitionOne of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles.
Read the complete definitionCovered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.
Read the complete definitionAn extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without …
Read the complete definitionA tuberosity; a tubercle.
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