Word Meanings - CHORDATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Related words: (words related to CHORDATA)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - COMPREHENSIVENESS
The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - DORSALLY
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - NERVOUSLY
In a nervous manner. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them. - HAVING
Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak. - DIVISIONAL
That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints. - HAVIOR
Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to - NERVOUS
1. possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous. "Nervous arms." Pope. 2. Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer. 3. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated - HAVOC
Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - INVERTEBRATA
A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata. - MISDIVISION
Wrong division. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - INCOMPREHENSIVE
Not comprehensive; not capable of including or of understanding; not extensive; limited. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ly, a. Sir W. Hamilton. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ness, n. T. Warton. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - DRAWSHAVE
See KNIFE - MISBEHAVIOR
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.