Word Meanings - FUNCTIONLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
  To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• ORGANONYMY
  The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.
• FUNCTION
  The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the
• DARWINIAN
  An advocate of Darwinism.
• ORGANITY
  Organism.
• ORGANOSCOPY
  Phrenology. Fleming.
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• ORGANIZE
  To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter
• ORGANOTROPHIC
  Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• DEFUNCTION
  Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• BIORGAN
  A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• TELEORGANIC
  Vital; as, teleorganic functions.