self

IPA: sˈɛɫf

One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
Self-interest or personal advantage.
Identity or personality.
(botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
(botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
(molecular biology, immunology) Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
A surname.
A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
An unincorporated community in Boone County, Arkansas, United States

(botany) To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
(botany) To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.

Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
(obsolete) Same, identical.
(obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
(molecular biology, immunology) Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

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