Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept BiologicalAttribute
More specialized WordNet synsets
- pep, peppiness, ginger
- liveliness and energy; "this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep"
- inanition
- exhaustion resulting from lack of food
- activeness, activity
- the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically; "the level of activity declines with age"
- inactiveness, inactivity, inertia
- a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
- languor, lethargy, sluggishness
- an unusual lack of energy
- listlessness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor
- inactivity resulting from torpidity and lack of vigor or energy
- indolence, laziness
- inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
- agerasia
- youthful appearance in an old person
- complexion, skin condition
- texture and appearance of the skin of the face
- stretch mark
- a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy)
- eyespot, ocellus
- an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color
- hairiness
- the quality of having hair
- hirsuteness, hirsutism
- excessive hairiness
- hairlessness
- the quality of not having hair
- homogeny
- (biology) similarity because of common evolution
- isomorphism
- (biology) similarity of form or shape or structure
- specificity
- the quality of being specific to a particular organism: "host specificity of a parasite"
- healthfulness
- the quality of promoting good health
- nutritiousness, nutritiveness
- the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth
- unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity
- the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
- salubrity, salubriousness
- the quality of being salubrious and invigorating
- deadliness, lethality
- the quality of being deadly
- jejunity, jejuneness
- quality of lacking nutritive value
- putrescence, rottenness
- the quality of rotting and becoming putrid
- unhealthfulness
- the quality of promoting poor health
- insalubrity, insalubriousness
- the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating
- inheritance, heritage
- any attribute that passes from parent to offspring
- heredity, genetic endowment
- the total of inherited attributes
- birthright
- personal characteristics that are inherited at birth
- inheritance
- attributes acquired via biological heredity
- ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- origin, descent, extraction
- properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- linkage
- (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes
- full blood
- descent from parents both of one pure breed
- pedigree, bloodline
- ancestry of a purebred animal
- agedness, senescence
- the property characteristic of old age
- senility
- the state of being senile
- longevity, seniority
- the property of being long-lived
- cytoarchitecture, cytoarchitectonics
- the cellular composition of a bodily structure
- phenotype
- the constitution of an organism as determined by the interaction of its genetic constitution and the environment
- genotype, genetic constitution
- the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism
- stainability
- (cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes
- basophilia
- the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes; "cytoplasmic basophilia"
- achromia
- (medical) an absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells
- pigmentation
- coloration of living tissues by pigment
- melanoderma
- abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin
- chromatism
- abnormal pigmentation
- protective coloration
- coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators
- aposematic coloration, warning coloration
- conspicuous coloration or markings of an animal serving to warn off predators: "a skunk's aposematic coloration"
- apatetic coloration
- coloring serving to as natural camouflage
- cryptic coloration
- coloring that conceals or disguises an animal's shape
- fatness, fat, avoirdupois
- excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others"
- bodily property
- an attribute of the body
- laterality, dominance
- superior development of one side of the body
- physique, build, body-build
- constitution of the human body
- lankiness
- a tall and thin physique
- dumpiness, squattiness
- a short and stout physique
- body type, somatotype
- a category of physique
- asthenic type, ectomorphy
- slender, weak, and lightweight
- endomorphy, pyknic type
- round, fat, and heavy
- athletic type, mesomorphy
- muscular and big-boned
- adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness
- having the property of containing fat; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity"
- abdominousness, paunchiness
- the bodily property of a protruding belly
- plumpness, embonpoint
- the bodily property of being well rounded
- fleshiness, obesity
- more than average fatness
- corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposis
- the property of excessive fatness
- chubbiness, pudginess, tubbiness, rolypoliness
- the property of having a plump and round body
- buxomness
- the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full bosomed
- leanness, thinness
- the property of having little body fat
- skinniness, scrawniness
- the bodily property of lacking flesh
- boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration
- leanness (usually caused by starvation)
- slenderness, slightness, slimness
- the property of an attractively thin person
- tallness
- the property of being taller than average stature
- shortness
- the property of being shorter than average stature
- stiffness
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
- physiological property
- a property having to do with the functioning of the body
- virility
- the property of being capable of copulation and procreation
- absorptivity, absorption factor
- (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body
- valence, valency
- (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate
- fugacity, fugaciousness
- the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
- mortality
- the quality or state of being mortal
- viability
- (of living things) capable of normal growth and development
- vitalness
- the quality of being essential to maintain life
- placentation
- arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary
- apical placentation
- where one or few ovules develop at the top of a simple or compound ovary
- lamellate placentation
- with ovules on thin extensions of the placentae into a compound ovary
- axile placentation
- ovules are borne at or around the center of a compound ovary on an axis formed from joined septa
- basal placentation
- where one or few ovules develop at the base of a simple or compound ovary
- free central placentation
- where ovules develop on a central column in a compound ovary lacking septa or with septa at base only
- marginal placentation, ventral placentation
- with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary
- parietal placentation
- where ovules develop on the wall or slight outgrowths of the wall forming broken partitions within a compound ovary
- childlessness
- the condition of being without offspring
- astigmatism, astigmia
- (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point
- stigmatism
- (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point
- hibernation
- cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
- estivation, aestivation
- cessation from or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
- fatigue, weariness, tiredness
- temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
- jet lag
- fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel
- exhaustion
- extreme fatigue
- arousal
- a state of heightened physiological activity
- flatulence, flatulency, gas
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- physiological state
- the condition of the body or bodily functions
- drive
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- estrus, oestrus, heat, rut
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- erection, hard-on
- an erect penis
- anestrus, anestrum, anoestrus, anoestrum
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
- diestrus, diestrum
- (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity
- undernourishment, malnourishment
- not having enough food to develop or function formally
- hunger, hungriness
- a physiological need for food
- emptiness
- having an empty stomach
- starvation, famishment
- a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
- sex drive
- a physiological need for sexual activity; "testosterone is responsible for the male sex drive"
- thirst
- a physiological need to drink
- normothermia
- normal body temperature
- cacogenesis
- inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile
- dysgenesis
- infertility between hybrids
- pregnancy, gestation
- the state of being pregnant
- gravidity, gravidness
- a technical term for pregnancy
- entopic pregnancy
- pregnancy resulting from normal gestation in the uterus
- quickening
- the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus
- parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
- rigor mortis
- temporary stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity occurring after death
- fertility, fecundity
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- potency
- the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse
- cellularity
- the state of having cells
- cryptobiosis
- a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill
- malignancy, malignance
- (medical) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
- purulence, purulency
- the state of being purulent (containing or forming pus)
- health
- a healthy state of well-being
- tonicity, tonus, tone
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"
- muscular tonus, muscle tone
- normal tonicity of the muscles; "exercise improves muscle tone"
- condition, shape
- the state of (good) health--especially in the phrases "in condition" or "in shape" or "out of condition" or "out of shape"
- infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness
- the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
- eye condition
- the condition of the optical properties of the eye
- anisometropia
- difference in the refractive power of the two eyes
- snowblindness
- temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice
- isometropia
- equality of refractive power in the two eyes
- turgor
- (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane
- biological clock
- an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions
- be well
- be healthy; feel good; "She has not been well lately"
- starve, hunger
- be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
- keep, stay fresh
- fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time"
- abducent, abducting
- (physiology) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part
- adducent, adductive, adducting
- (physiology) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part
- acropetal
- (botany) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex
- basipetal
- (botany) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base
- active
- characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action"
- active
- (pathology) tending to become more severe or wider in scope; "active tuberculosis"
- inactive
- (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
- arrested, in remission
- having development checked or reversed; "arrested tuberculosis"
- indolent
- (pathology) of tumors e.g.; slow to heal or develop and usually painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent infectious disease"
- latent
- not presently active; "latent infection"
- quiescent
- causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"
- antidotal
- counteracting the effects of a poison
- antiphlogistic
- counteracting inflammation
- unmechanical, nonmechanical
- of persons without mechanical skills
- aerobic
- depending on free oxygen or air; "aerobic fermentation"
- aerobiotic
- living or active only in the presence of oxygen; "aerobiotic bacteria"
- anaerobic, anaerobiotic
- living or active in the absence of free oxygen; "anaerobic bacteria"
- anaerobic
- not aerobic; "isometric exercises are anaerobic"
- aerobic
- based on or using the principles of aerobics; enhancing respiratory and circulatory efficiency; "aerobic dance"; "running is very aerobic"
- predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
- eccrine
- producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature
- apocrine
- producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion; "mother's milk is one apocrine secretion"
- precocial
- (of hatchlings) covered with down and having eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days
- altricial
- (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food
- anabolic
- characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism; "some athletes take anabolic steroids to increase muscle size temporarily"
- catabolic, katabolic
- characterized by destructive metabolism
- constructive-metabolic(a), energy-storing(a)
- of or relating to anabolism
- destructive-metabolic(a), energy-releasing(a)
- of or relating to catabolism
- antrorse
- (biology) bent or curved forward or upward; "a plant having antrorse hairs on the stem"
- retrorse
- (biology) bent or curved backward or downward; "leaves with retrorse barbs"
- pregnant
- carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
- big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"
- nonpregnant
- not pregnant
- astringent
- tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue; "astringent cosmetic lotions"
- styptic, hemostatic
- tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
- nonastringent
- not astringent
- acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate
- (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin
- pocked, pockmarked
- marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease
- clear
- of complexion; without such blemishes as e.g. acne; "the clear complexion of a healthy young woman"
- blooded
- having blood of a certain type; used as a combining form; "blue-blooded aristocracy"; "red-blooded American"
- incontinent
- not having control over urination and defecation
- continent
- having control over urination and defecation
- leaky
- used informally; unable to retain urine
- synergistic, interactive
- used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more)
- antagonistic, incompatible
- used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- costive
- retarding evacuation of feces
- binding, constipating
- causing constipation
- laxative
- stimulating evacuation of feces
- aperient
- mildly laxative
- cathartic, evacuant, purgative
- strongly laxative
- lax, loose
- emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
- bound(p)
- confined in the bowels; "he is bound in the belly"
- unconstipated, regular
- not constipated
- exhausted
- drained physically; "the day's events left her completely exhausted--her strength drained"
- epimorphic
- (biology) characterized by incomplete metamorphosis; having the same number of body segments in successive stages
- metamorphous
- (biology) produced by metamorphosis; "most insects are metamorphic as witness the stages as a butterfly develops from a caterpillar"
- normotensive
- having normal blood pressure
- nociceptive
- caused by or in response to pain; "a nociceptive spinal reflex"
- reactive
- tending to react to a stimulus; "the skin of the geriatric is less reactive than that of younger persons"- Louis Tuft
- germfree
- free from germs or pathogenic organisms; sterile; "a germfree environment"
- nonpurulent
- not containing pus
- uninfected, clean
- free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected) wound"
- seamless, unlined, unseamed
- used especially of skin; "his cheeks were unlined"; "his unseamed face"
- immune, resistant
- relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
- actinomorphic, actinomorphous
- (biology) capable of division into symmetrical halves by any longitudinal plane passing through the axis
- actinoid
- having a radial form; "starfish are actinoid--that is, they are radially symmetrical"
- zygomorphic, bilaterally symmetrical, zygomorphous
- (biology) capable of division into symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis
- isotonic
- (physiology) of two or more muscles; having equal tension
- depressed
- (biology) flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
- compressed, flat
- (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- calloused, thickened
- having skin made tough and thick through wear
- tough, toughened
- physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
- tender, untoughened
- physically untoughened; "tender feet"
- true
- (biology) conforming to the definitive criteria of a natural group; "the horseshoe crab is not a true (or typical) crab"
- broody
- physiologically ready to incubate eggs; "a broody hen"
- anabiotic
- of or related to the state of anabiosis
- atonic
- characterized by a lack of tonus
- cryptobiotic
- or or related to the state of cryptobiosis
- sex-limited
- relating to characteristics that are expressed differently in the two sexes
- sex-linked
- concerning characteristics that are determined by genes carried on the sex chromosomes (on the X chromosome in particular)
- basophilic
- (biology) staining readily with basic dyes
- trophotropic
- of or relating to trophotropism
- instinctively
- as a matter of instinct; "he instinctively grabbed the knife"