Word Meanings - SEPTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.
Related words: (words related to SEPTAL)
- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - CORAL-RAG
See CORALLIAN - CORALLUM
The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral. - CORALLIAN
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - SEPTANGULAR
Heptagonal. - CORALLIGENA
See ANTHOZOA - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - CORALLINITE
A fossil coralline. - SHELLBARK
A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - CORALLIGEROUS
Producing coral; coraliferous. - CORAL
The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. Note: The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of Madreporaria, and to the hydroid genus, - SHELLY
Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak. - SHELLAC; SHELL-LAC
See LAC - CORALLINE
A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches. - SEPTUM
A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus. One - CORALLIFEROUS
Containing or producing coral. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - SLIT-SHELL
Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas. - MASK SHELL
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture. - TETRACORALLA
See RUGOSA - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - UNSHELL
To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch. - HYDROCORALLIA
A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora. - EGGSHELL
A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. (more info) 1. The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell. - FROGSHELL
One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera. - TOOTHSHELL
Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.