dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/eug_MW.json
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{
"euglenoid movement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": writhing usually nonprogressive protoplasmic movement of plastic-bodied euglenoid flagellates":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053616"
},
"Euglenoidina":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an order of Phytomastigina comprising extremely varied flagellates that are typically solitary green or colorless stigma-bearing organisms with one or two flagella emerging anteriorly from a well-defined gullet \u2014 see euglena":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-d\u0113n\u0259",
"\u02ccy\u00fcgl\u0259\u02ccn\u022fi\u02c8d\u012bn\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Euglena + Latin -oides -oid + New Latin -ina":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093132"
},
"euglenoid":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a taxon (Euglenophyta or Euglenida) of varied flagellates (such as a euglena ) that are typically green or colorless stigma-bearing solitary microorganisms with one or two flagella emerging from a well-defined gullet":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"y\u00fc-\u02c8gl\u0113-\u02ccn\u022fid",
"\u02c8y\u00fc-gl\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1885, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-100614"
},
"euglena":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Euglena ) of green freshwater flagellates often classified as algae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"yu\u0307-\u02c8gl\u0113-n\u0259",
"y\u00fc-\u02c8gl\u0113-n\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, genus name, from eu- + Greek gl\u0113n\u0113 eyeball, socket of a joint":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1889, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122125"
},
"eugenics":{
"type":[
"noun, plural in form but singular in construction"
],
"definitions":{
": the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the population's genetic composition":[
"In 1883 Francis Galton, in England, coined the term \" eugenics \" to encompass the idea of modification of natural selection through selective breeding for the improvement of humankind \u2026",
"\u2014 Jeremiah A. Barondess",
"A half-century ago, eugenics became associated with Hitler, genocide and master-race theories, and its reputation has never recovered.",
"\u2014 Dan Seligman",
"After the Second World War, \" eugenics \" became a word to be hedged with caveats in Britain and virtually a dirty word in the United States, where it had long been identified with racism.",
"\u2014 Daniel J. Kevles"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"y\u00fc-\u02c8je-niks",
"yu\u0307-\u02c8jen-iks"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In June 2020, the University of Southern California stripped a campus building of the name of a former president who was a prominent advocate for eugenics . \u2014 Zachary Schermele, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
"The Mississippi clinic is not affiliated with Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood itself denounces Ms. Sanger\u2019s belief in eugenics . \u2014 Emily Wagster Pettus And Leah Willingham, The Christian Science Monitor , 4 May 2022",
"The Mississippi clinic is not affiliated with Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood itself denounces Sanger\u2019s belief in eugenics . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 4 May 2022",
"There are chapters on the development of genetics, the eugenics movement, the heritability of family traits and the field of epigenetics, which studies whether our genes can be altered by experience (short answer: it\u2019s complicated). \u2014 Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Intelligence testing originated in the early 1900s and became a key part of the eugenics movement, which propagated racist ideas that people of certain ethnicities were genetically less intelligent than those of European descent. \u2014 Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 May 2022",
"Professors and administrators promoted the study of eugenics , and Harvard admitted only about three black students per year during the period between 1890 and 1940. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 28 Apr. 2022",
"By the early 20th century, Virginia\u2019s eugenics movement and the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 aimed to eliminate the entire classification of Native Americans, declaring that every resident had to be either Black or White. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Impelled by the racist practice known as eugenics , California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people from 1909 to 1979. \u2014 Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1883, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122715"
},
"Euglandina":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of land snails (family Oleacinidae) found especially in the southern U.S. and in Mexico that are largely carnivorous in habits":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccy\u00fc\u02ccglan\u02c8d\u012bn\u0259",
"-d\u0113n\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from eu- + Glandina genus of snails, from Latin gland-, glans acorn + New Latin -ina":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212208"
},
"eugenicist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a student or advocate of eugenics":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"y\u00fc-\u02c8je-n\u0259-sist",
"-\u02c8jen-\u0259-s\u0259st"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When Woodrow Wilson was elected governor of New Jersey, Katzen-Ellenbogen was hired as the chief eugenicist of his administration. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Loomis was an idealist, but also a eugenicist ; MH, a radical leader who has supposedly renounced materialism, wears expensive jeans and motorcycle boots and owns a lake house. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine , 22 June 2021",
"Deaf and disabled people were, and in some places remain, victims of eugenicist or bigoted policies that have in the past included experimentation and compulsory sterilization. \u2014 Sara Novic, CNN , 13 Apr. 2021",
"In January, Boalt Hall at the UC Berkeley School of Law was denamed because of attorney John Henry Boalt\u2019s racist writings, while USC removed the name of Rufus von KleinSmid, a prominent eugenicist , from one of its buildings in June. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 18 Nov. 2020",
"The surgery was urged at birth control clinics throughout the archipelago, including several that were established by U.S. eugenicist Clarence Gamble, an heir to the Procter & Gamble company. \u2014 Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com , 20 Oct. 2020",
"Students point to the fact that the SAT was designed by a eugenicist , and that the UT system primarily began testing applicants in the 1950s to counteract desegregation without appearing to discriminate against Black students. \u2014 Jennifer Zhan, Dallas News , 17 Sep. 2020",
"One of the primary examples would be [prominent eugenicist ] Harry Laughlin. \u2014 Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 May 2020",
"The debates around the commemoration of Fisher can be summarized by whether his identifiers\u2014statistician, geneticist, and eugenicist \u2014can or should be separated. \u2014 C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American , 12 June 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1909, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001425"
}
}