Word Meanings - BROWSPOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

Related words: (words related to BROWSPOT)

• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• GLAND
  The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. (more info) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• GLANDAGE
  A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb.
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.