plural of false croup

plural of false easting

A word which is identical or similar in both form and meaning to another word, and therefore appears to also be cognate (etymologically related) to it, but which is in fact unrelated.

(linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.

pseudohermaphrodite.

(sports) The act of an athlete starting a race before being signaled to do so. / (American football) The act of an offensive player moving across the line of scrimmage prior to the snap.

plural of false friend

(botany) A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but some adjacent tissue.

The chaffweed (Centunculus minimus). / A type of figwort (Lindernia dubia), found in wet or muddy places.

(cartography) A value relating to distance north of a standard latitude but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in UTM, the Southern Hemisphere is assigned negative degrees of latitude, but to avoid negative numbers in northings, a constant value of 10,000,000 is added so that negative numbers for northings do not occur.