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Word Meanings - SAGITTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

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  • ARTICULARLY
    In an articular or an articulate manner.
  • ARTICULAR; ARTICULARY
    A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
  • ARTICULAR
    Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.
  • BRISTLY
    THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.
  • THORNY
    1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. 2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The
  • PRICKLY
    Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species
  • SAGITTATE
    Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
  • SAGITTATED
    Sagittal; sagittate.
  • HASTATE; HASTATED
    Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.
  • SPINOUS
    1. Spinose; thorny. 2. Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike. Spinous process of a vertebra , the dorsal process of the neural arch of a vertebra; a neurapophysis.
  • SUPERSPINOUS
    Supraspinuos.
  • SUPRASPINATE; SUPRASPINOUS
    Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.
  • PARTICULARITY
    1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
  • PARTICULARLY
    1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
  • SUBSPINOUS
    Subvertebral. Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.
  • PARTICULARISM
    The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
  • QUINQUARTICULAR
    Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. Bp. Sanderson.
  • INTERARTICULAR
    Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.
  • INTERSPINAL; INTERSPINOUS
    Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.
  • PARTICULARMENT
    A particular; a detail.
  • PARTICULARIZATION
    The act of particularizing. Coleridge.
  • INFRASPINATE; INFRASPINOUS
    Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

 

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