Word Meanings - -BLAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.

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• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• EPIBLASTIC
  Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.
• FORMATIVE
  Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative. (more info) 1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing
• SIGNIFY
  1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus
• SUFFIXION
  The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• SUFFIXMENT
  Suffixion. Earle.
• TERMINALIA
  A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• PRINCIPALLY
  In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• FORMATION
  The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow. (more info) 1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie. 2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation;
• EPIBLAST
  The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.
• BIOBLAST
  See BIOPLAST
• TERMINAL
  Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike. Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal velocity. The velocity acquired at the end of a
• MESOBLAST
  The mesoderm. The cell nucleus; mesoplast.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• AFFORMATIVE
  An affix.
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• BIOLOGIC; BIOLOGICAL
  Of or relating to biology. -- Bi`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• AMPHIBIOLOGICAL
  Pertaining to amphibiology.
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• CONTERMINAL
  Conterminous.
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• EFFORMATION
  The act of giving shape or form. Ray.
• FORESIGNIFY
  To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.