A disease of cabbage, cauliflower, and related plants that is caused by a fungus, Rhizoctonia solani.

(phylogenetics) A paraphyletic group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, excluding the living representatives of a collection of species.

(anthropology) A family system in which a couple's firstborn child lives with them in the family home, and that child's spouse moves into the home of said in-laws, so that the younger couple's children are raised in the home of their grandparents. Usually, the younger offspring move out upon marriage. The inheritance, depending on the culture, may or may not be the most favorable to the firstborn.

The fine stem of a wine glass pulled out from the material of the bowl, instead of being attached separately. / A wine glass having this kind of stem.

The Call of South Africa

(genetics) A short length of intramolecularly bonded single-stranded DNA or RNA

(historical or astrology) A day of the traditional ten-day week. / (mythology) One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week.

plural of stem mammal

Synonym of synapsid

plural of stem-loop