Word Meanings - QUADRIVALVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.

Related words: (words related to QUADRIVALVE)

• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• VALVAL; VALVAR
  Valvular.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• PERICARP
  The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
• VALVULE
  A small valvelike process. (more info) 1. A little valve; a valvelet.
• VALVULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically , of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease. 2. Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
• VALVELET
  A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
• VALVATE
  1. Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular. Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in æstivation, and of leaves in vernation. Opening as if
• VALVASOR
  See VAVASOR
• SIMILARLY
  In a similar manner.
• DEHISCENT
  Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
• PERICARPIAL; PERICARPIC
  Of or pertaining to a pericarp.
• VALVE
  One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves. One of the
• VALVULA
  A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
• SIMILARITY
  The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.
• VALVED
  Having a valve or valve; valvate.
• QUADRIVALVE
  Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.
• VALVATA
  A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
• SIMILAR
  1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like. 2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness. 3. Homogenous; uniform. Boyle. Similar figures , figures which differ from
• INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
  Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
  Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• UNIVALVIA
  See GASTROPODA
• EQUIVALVE; EQUIVALVED
  Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
• FOOT VALVE
  A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.
• TUBIVALVE
  A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.
• QUADRIVALVULAR
  Having four valves; quadrivalve.
• BLOW VALVE
  See VALVE
• DISSIMILAR
  Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.