Italian to English Dictionary (Dizionario Italiano-Inglese)

Oedipus

A character in Greek mythology who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, representing themes of fate and tragic irony.

Quango

A semi-public organization that is financially supported by a government but acts independently of it.

Quzhu

The action of forcibly expelling someone from a country or place; deportation or banishment.

Shade avoidance

A suite of behavioral and morphological responses displayed by plants when they detect the presence of neighboring vegetation, typically characterized by accelerated stem elongation and reduced branching to outgrow competitors and capture sunlight.

Souling

An old English custom in which people go from house to house begging for soul cakes and singing prayers for the dead.

Stiffy

Slang term for an erection of the penis.

Sweet-rocket

A European perennial herb (Hesperis matronalis) of the mustard family, widely cultivated for its clusters of fragrant white, pink, or purple flowers; also called dame's rocket.

Teleological ethics

A theory of ethics according to which the rightness of an action is determined by its end, purpose, or the goodness of its consequences.

Transduction-efficiency

The degree or success rate to which foreign DNA or RNA is introduced into a host cell by a vector such as a virus or bacteriophage.

Yingheng

A conceptual term referring to a balanced response or sustained equilibrium within a given philosophical or systematic framework.