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Word Meanings - ENTOMOPHILOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

Related words: (words related to ENTOMOPHILOUS)

  • CARRIBOO
    See CARIBOU
  • CARRIABLE
    Capable of being carried.
  • STIGMATIC; STIGMATICAL
    Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata. Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma is made use of to establish geometrical proportions. (more info) 1. Marked with a stigma, or with something
  • CARRIAGEABLE
    Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
  • POLLENIN
    A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.
  • POLLEN
    The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain , a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually
  • 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.
  • STIGMATIST
    One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • CARRIAGE
    carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
  • STIGMATA
    pl. of Stigma.
  • FERTILIZATION
    The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization
  • STIGMATOSE
    See STIGMATIC
  • CARRION
    1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak.
  • FERTILIZE
    1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron. 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize
  • STIGMATICALLY
    With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.
  • AGENCY
    1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
  • POLLENIFEROUS
    Producing pollen; polliniferous.
  • STIGMATIZATION
    The production of stigmata upon the body. See Stigma, 8. (more info) 1. The act of stigmatizing.
  • POLLENIZE
    To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.
  • SELF-FERTILIZED
    Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
  • SCARRING
    A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
  • RECARRIAGE
    Act of carrying back.
  • INTERAGENCY
    Intermediate agency.
  • MISCARRIAGEABLE
    Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
  • GINNY-CARRIAGE
    A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
  • ANASTIGMATIC
    Not astigmatic; --said esp. of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.
  • SUBAGENCY
    A subordinate agency.
  • PREPOLLENT
    Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant. Boyle.
  • ASTIGMATIC
    Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.

 

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