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Word Meanings - PAPILLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.

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  • 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.

 

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