Word Meanings - RHIZOSTOMATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.

Related words: (words related to RHIZOSTOMATA)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• MARGINALIA
  Marginal notes.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• MEDUSIFORM
  Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.
• MARGINALLY
  In the margin of a book.
• MARGINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• APPENDIX
  1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• SCYPHOMEDUSA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE
  See DISCOPHORA
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• POLYPOMEDUSAE
  See HYDROZOA