Word Meanings - CLITORIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• 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
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• 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
• 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,
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• ORGANONYMY
  The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.
• ORGANITY
  Organism.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• ORGANOSCOPY
  Phrenology. Fleming.
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• ORGANIZE
  To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• BIORGAN
  A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• TELEORGANIC
  Vital; as, teleorganic functions.