Word Meanings - EPIPTERYGOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n.
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- SITUATE
To place. Landor. - ABOVEBOARD
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands - ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before. - SITUATE; SITUATED
1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate - ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. - ABOVEDECK
On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart. - PTERYGOID
A pterygoid bone. Pterygoid bone , a bone which corresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine - SITUATION
1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest - ABOVE-CITED
Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing. - ABOVE
1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in - EPIPTERYGOID
Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n. - PALATOPTERYGOID
Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed. - BASIPTERYGOID
Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.