Word Meanings - BLENNOGENOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Generating mucus.

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• MUCUS
  A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.
• GENERATIVE
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
• GENERATION
  The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface
• GENERATRIX
  That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.
• MUCUSIN
  Mucin.
• GENERATOR
  The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces. 2. An apparatus in which
• GENERATE
  To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order. (more info) 1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• UNREGENERATION
  Unregeneracy.
• REGENERATOR
  A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping,
• DEGENERATION
  That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse,
• TURBOGENERATOR
  An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.
• DEGENERATE
  Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate
• PROGENERATION
  The act of begetting; propagation.
• WALLERIAN DEGENERATION
  A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.
• INGENERATE
  Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.
• MOTOR GENERATOR
  The combination consisting of a generator and a driving motor mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft.
• INDUCTION GENERATOR
  A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction
• PROGENERATE
  To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. Landor.
• DEGENERATENESS
  Degeneracy.
• DEGENERATIVE
  Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.
• REGENERATIVELY
  So as to regenerate.
• REGENERATION
  The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart. He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and