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Word Meanings - BLASTOIDEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

Related words: (words related to BLASTOIDEA)

  • NAMELESSLY
    In a nameless manner.
  • NAMABLE
    Capable of being named.
  • ACCOUNTANTSHIP
    The office or employment of an accountant.
  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • FOSSILIZATION
    The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • ACCOUNTANCY
    The art or employment of an accountant.
  • NAMELESS
    1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless
  • FOUND
    1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his
  • NAMER
    One who names, or calls by name.
  • FOUNDATIONER
    One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
  • NAMAYCUSH
    A large North American lake trout . It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.
  • FOSSILIZE
    1. To become fossil. 2. To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
  • FOUNDEROUS
    Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
  • NAMESAKE
    One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
  • FOSSIL
    Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
  • NAMBY-PAMBY
    Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford.
  • NAMELY
    1. By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly. Chaucer. The solitariness of man ...God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton. 2. That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular
  • FOSSILIST
    One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
  • FOSSILIZED
    Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
  • PENTREMITES
    A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
  • PALEOCRINOIDEA
    A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.
  • DYNAMO
    A dynamo-electric machine.
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • DYNAMOMETRY
    The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
  • FOUNDER
    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
    Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
  • DYNAMOMETER
    An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
  • CORK FOSSIL
    A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • MONODYNAMISM
    The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes.
  • HEMADYNAMOMETER
    An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.
  • ADYNAMIC
    Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
  • ORNAMENTAL
    Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.

 

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