ichorous.html - n.
1 (in Greek mythology) fluid flowing like blood in the veins of the gods.
2 poet. bloodlike fluid.
3 hist. a watery fetid discharge from a wound etc.

ichorous adj. [Gk ikhor]

ichorous.html - n.
1 (in Greek mythology) fluid flowing like blood in the veins of the gods.
2 poet. bloodlike fluid.
3 hist. a watery fetid discharge from a wound etc.

ichorous adj. [Gk ikhor]

ichorous.html - n.
1 (in full ichneumon wasp) any small hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, depositing eggs in or on the larva of another insect as food for its own larva.
2 a mongoose of N. Africa, Herpestes ichneumon, noted for destroying crocodile eggs. [L f. Gk ikhneumon spider-hunting wasp f. ikhneuo trace f. ikhnos footstep]

ichorous.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 the ground-plan of a building, map of a region, etc.
2 a drawing of this. [F ichnographie or L ichnographia f. Gk ikhnographia f. ikhnos track: see -GRAPHY]

ichorous.html - n.
1 (in Greek mythology) fluid flowing like blood in the veins of the gods.
2 poet. bloodlike fluid.
3 hist. a watery fetid discharge from a wound etc.

ichorous adj. [Gk ikhor]

ichorous.html - comb. form fish. [Gk ikhthus fish]