Word Meanings - CRUCIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc. (more info) 1. Bearing a cross.
Related words: (words related to CRUCIFEROUS)
- CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - FAMILY
A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - CROSS-VAULTING
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults. - CROSSLEGGED
Having the legs crossed. - CROSSHEAD
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it - CROSS-BUTTOCK
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - CROSS-CROSSLET
A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - CROSSWORT
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. - CROSS-TAIL
A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - ANT-BEAR
An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. - MISARRANGEMENT
Wrong arrangement. - GRAYBEARD
An old man. Shak. - WHITE MUSTARD
A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.