hydro- |
Hydr- 1. Water, watery. 2. Containing or combined with hydrogen. 3. A hydatid. Origin: G. Hydor, water (05 Mar 2000) |
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hydro-electric |
Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. <physics> Hydro-electric machine, an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the escape of high-pressure steam from a series of jets connected with a strong boiler, in which the steam is produced. Origin: Hydro-, 1 + electric. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
hydro-lyases |
<enzyme> Enzymes that catalyze the removal of water from a substrate by breakage of a carbon-oxygen bond, leading to formation of a double bond. The recommended name is usually dehydratase. The term synthase or hydratase is used when the reverse aspect of the reaction is dominant. Registry number: EC 4.2.1. (12 Dec 1998) |
hydro-mulching |
<botany> Seeding of grasses, mixed with fertiliser, a wood pulp mulch, and a tackifier to stick the mix to the ground, applied by a machine blower in a wet condition to exposed, denuded slopes or embankments. (if no mulch is used, it is called hydro-seeding.) (09 Oct 1997) |
carbonate hydro-lyase |
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4-oxalmesaconate hydro-lyase |