idio- +

An agglutinin that occurs naturally in the blood of a person or an animal, without the injection of a stimulating antigen or the passive transfer of an antibody.

The branch of biology concerned with the study of organisms as individuals or the study of individual organisms.

1. A specialized plant cell that differs considerably from others in the same area of tissue. An idioblast is usually thick-walled and lacks chlorophyll.
2. An isolated cell differing in form, in contents, or in wall structure, from neighboring cells.

Peculiar to the white race.

Peculiar to a particular group of people.

Having a distinctive and constant coloration, used especially of minerals.

Personal rule or government.

Peculiarity of constitution; idiosyncrasy.

1. Extreme lack of intelligence or foresight.
2. An extremely unintelligent or thoughtless act.
3. An offensive term in a now disused classification system for mental disability.

Independently active.

A system of beliefs in psychology emphasizing the role of the personality in choosing stimuli and in organizing responses.

A reference to a man who can perform sexually only with his wife or a limited number of partners, being impotent with other women.

In biology, self-fertilization.

A state of being sexually potent with just a few women and impotent with others.

Spontaneous origin (as of a disease).