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lenticular colony (medicine) and pander (iou)


lenticular colony (medicine)


lenticular colony


A bacterial colony shaped like a lentil or a double-convex lens.


pander (iou)



pander noun & verb. Also pandar. LME.
[Pandare, a character in Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde who procured for Troilus the love of Criseyde, from Italian Pandaro, similar character in Boccaccio, from Latin Pandarus from Greek Pandaros.]
A. noun.
A go-between in illicit love-affairs; a person who provides another with a means of gratifying lust; a pimp, a procurer, esp. a male one. LME.
A person who assists the baser passions or evil designs of others. E17.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Act as a pander. Now usu. foll. by to: assist in the gratification of (a desire, weakness, etc.), indulge (a person); be subservient to. E17.
Times In his quest for popular support, he panders to the least responsible elements in the community. M. Meyer A young poet who did not seek to pander to Fashion. N. Annan She pandered to Leslie's fetish for economy. M. Flanagan He accused you of pandering in my affair with Felix.
verb trans. Pander to; assist in the gratification of. E17.
panderer noun = PANDER noun 1 M19.
panderess noun (now rare) a female pander, a procuress E17.
panderism noun the practice or occupation of a pander E17.
panderly adjective of the Nature of or befitting a pander L16-E19.