bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - SPATANGOIDEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.

Related words: (words related to SPATANGOIDEA)

  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • SHELL-LESS
    , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • HEARTWOOD
    The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
  • UNDERNIME
    1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • HEART
    A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • IRREGULARITY
    The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • UNDERDELVE
    To delve under.
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • GOROON SHELL
    A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
  • MISHAPPEN
    To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
  • MACROPETALOUS
    Having long or large petals.
  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • VALVE-SHELL
    Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
  • INTERAMBULACRAL
    Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
  • SPINDLE-SHAPED
    Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • SPOUTSHELL
    Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.

 

Back to top