Word Meanings - PAPILLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.
Related words: (words related to PAPILLA)
- PROJECTION
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction - PAPILLARY
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose. - PAPILLIFORM
Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform. - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - PAPILLOUS
Papillary; papillose. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - PAPILLAR
See PAPILLOSE - TONGUED
Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne. - TONGUE-TIED
1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak. - PAPILLATE
To cover with papillæ; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillæ. - TONGUE-PAD
A great talker. - TONGUE-SHAPED
Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf. - PAPILLA
Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue. - PAPILLULATE
Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression. - MINUTE
1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as, - TONGUEFISH
A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States. - MINUTEMAN
A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution. - MINUTE-JACK
1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak. - MINUTENESS
The quality of being minute. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - LONG-TONGUE
The wryneck. - COMMINUTE
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture. - PLEASANT-TONGUED
Of pleasing speech. - TRUMPET-TONGUED
Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. - TWO-TONGUED
Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys. - MINUTELY
In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.