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Word Meanings - SEPTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

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  • 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.

 

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