Word Meanings - EXOGEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a
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A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen. Gray.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.