Word Meanings - OMOSTEGITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

Related words: (words related to OMOSTEGITE)

• CARAPACE
  The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• BEHIND
  1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall. 2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by
• BEHINDHAND
  1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some
• CRUSTACEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.
• GROOVER
  1. One who or that which grooves. 2. A miner. Holloway.
• CERVICAL
  Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebræ.
• SITUATION
  1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
• GROOVE
  A shaft or excavation. (more info) 1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. 2. Hence: The habitual course
• POLYGROOVED
  Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling).
• INGROOVE
  To groove in; to join in or with a groove. Tennyson.