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.