Word Meanings - LYCOPODIACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

Related words: (words related to LYCOPODIACEOUS)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• BRANCHIOPODA
  An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
• BRANCHINESS
  Fullness of branches.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• NERVOMUSCULAR
  Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
• LYCOPODIACEOUS
  Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• STEMSON
  A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
• NERVELESS
  1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• HYPOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• INNERVATION
  Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
  See -ATE (more info) & n.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.