Word Meanings - ENDERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.

Related words: (words related to ENDERON)

• VASCULARITY
  The quality or state of being vascular.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• MUCOUS
  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance. 2. Secreting a slimy or mucigenous substance; as, the mucous membrane. Mucous membrane. See under Membrane. -- Mucous patches , elevated
• LAYER
  That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
• MUCOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being mucous; sliminess.
• VASCULAR
  Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phænogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. Vascular plants , plants composed in part of vascular
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• SUBMUCOUS
  Situated under a mucous membrane.
• FIBROVASCULAR
  Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• SLAYER
  One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
• PERIVASCULAR
  Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.
• UNDERLAYER
  A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• OVERLAYER
  One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.
• GASTROVASCULAR
  Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of coelenterates.
• MISLAYER
  One who mislays.
• EXTRAVASCULAR
  Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues. Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.
• PIPELAYER; PIPE LAYER
  A politician who works in secret; -- in this sense, usually written as one word. (more info) 1. One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.