Word Meanings - AURICULARIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

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• HOLOTHURIAN
  ( -- n.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• APPENDIX
  1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
• BLUNTLY
  In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• BLUNTNESS
  1. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland. 2. A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• BLUNT
  1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak. 2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak. 3. Abrupt in address;
• APPENDIX VERMIFORMIS
  The vermiform appendix.
• LARVA
  Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in
• LARVATE
  Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.
• LARVATED
  Masked; clothed as with a mask.
• BLUNT-WITTED
  Dull; stupid. Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor! Shak.
• LARVALIA
  An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia.
• LOEVEN'S LARVA
  The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.