Word Meanings - PROSENCHYMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• 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.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• 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.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• 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
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.