hoffman | (n) United States sculptor (1887-1966), Syn. Malvina Hoffman |
hoffman | (n) versatile United States film actor (born in 1937), Syn. Dustin Hoffman |
hoffmann | (n) Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956), Syn. Josef Hoffmann |
hoffmann | (n) German chemist (1818-1892), Syn. August Wilhelm von Hoffmann |
hoffmann | (n) United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937), Syn. Roald Hoffmann |
hoffmann | (n) German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822), Syn. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann |
hoffmannsthal | (n) German poet who wrote libretti for operas by Richard Strauss (1874-1929), Syn. Hugo von Hoffmannsthal |
werdnig-hoffman disease | (n) autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood |
two-toed sloth | (n) a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot, Syn. unau, unai, Choloepus hoffmanni |