Word Meanings - HEMITROPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half turned round; half inverted; having a twinned structure.

Related words: (words related to HEMITROPE)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• INVERTASE
  An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• INVERTEBRATA
  A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• INVERTIN
  An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
• TURN-SICK
  Giddy. Bacon.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• INVERTEDLY
  In an inverted order. Derham.
• TURNVEREIN
  A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
• TURNHALLE
  A building used as a school of gymnastics.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• DIUTURNAL
  Of long continuance; lasting. Milton.