Word Meanings - EPIPLASTRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

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• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• PLASTRON
  An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk. (more info) 1. A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast. Dryden.
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• HYPOPLASTRON
  The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• QUADRILATERAL
  Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• EQUILATERAL
  Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola , one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell , one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve,
• EPIPLASTRON
  One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.
• SEPTILATERAL
  Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure.
• BILATERALITY
  State of being bilateral.
• INEQUILATERAL
  Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells. (more info) 1. Having unequal sides; unsymmetrical; unequal-sided.
• BILATERAL
  Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body. (more info) 1. Having two sides; arranged upon
• TRILATERAL
  Having three sides; being three-sided; as, a trilateral triangle. -- Tri*lat"er*al*ly, adv. -- Tri*lat"er*al*ness, n.
• QUADRILATERALNESS
  The property of being quadrilateral.