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Word Meanings - ODONTOPHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.

Related words: (words related to ODONTOPHORE)

  • ARM-GRET
    Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
  • APPLICABLE
    Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
  • EXCEPT
    1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
  • CARTILAGE
    A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
  • RADULA
    The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.
  • ARMADA
    A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.
  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • FOUNDER
    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • LINGUAL
    Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore.
  • APPLICATIVE
    Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
  • ARMORY
    fr. L. armarium place for keeping arms; but confused with F. 1. A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. 2. Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton. 3. A manufactory
  • ARMILLARY
    Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions
  • APPLICANCY
    The quality or state of being applicable.
  • ALONENESS
    A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
  • EXCEPTIONER
    One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
  • APPLICABILITY
    The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
  • ARMOZEEN; ARMOZINE
    A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.
  • ARMORED
    Clad with armor.
  • FOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Find.
  • FOUNDATIONER
    One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
  • WARMTH
    The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
  • BABY FARMING
    The business of keeping a baby farm.
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • CARMINIC
    Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3.
  • DISARM
    1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson. 2. To deprive of the means
  • HARMLESS
    1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt;
  • PHARMACY
    pharmacie, Gr. 1. The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist. 2. A place where medicines
  • UNAPPLIABLE
    Inapplicable. Milton.
  • FIREARM
    A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
  • HARMONIZATION
    The act of harmonizing.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • FARMERESS
    A woman who farms.

 

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