Translingual

Proper noun

Syntexis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Anaxyelidae – wood wasps, with a single species Syntexis libocedrii, the cedar wood wasp.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Hymenopterida - superorder; Hymenoptera - order; Symphyta - suborder; Siricoidea - superfamily; Anaxyelidae - family; Syntexinae - subfamily

English

Noun

syntexis ‎(uncountable)

1. (geology) A change in the structure of magma by melting or the assimilation of a different type of rock.
   • 1857, in the Geological Magazine, volume 85, page 355:

     [...] is immaterial whether this magma is derived from a distinct earth shell, or is produced by syntexis between the sima and the sialic rocks.

2. (medicine) emaciation or wasting away
   • 1885, Dujardin-Beaumetz, Indications for Antithermic Medication, in the New York Medical Abstract, volume 5, page 443:

     The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, [...]

See also

• syntaxis