Word Meanings - SPHENETHMOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone , a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

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• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• 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.
• AMPHIBIA
  One of the classes of vertebrates. Note: The Amphibia are distinguished by having usually no scales, by having eggs and embryos similar to those of fishes, and by undergoing a complete metamorphosis, the young having gills. There are three living
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BRAIN
  The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,
• BRAINSICKLY
  In a brainsick manner.
• 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
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• SKULLCAP
  Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
• SPHENETHMOIDAL
  Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• AMPHIBIAL
  Amphibian.
• BRAINSICK
  Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.
• BRAINED
  Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.
• AMPHIBIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.
• BRAINISH
  Hot-headed; furious. Shak.
• GIRDLE
  1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. Shak. 2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in. Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about. Shak. 3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
• SPHENETHMOID
  Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone , a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.
• BRAINY
  Having an active or vigorous mind.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• SPHENOETHMOIDAL
  Sphenethmoid.
• ALIETHMOID; ALIETHMOIDAL
  Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or
• ETHMOID; ETHMOIDAL
  Like a sieve; cribriform. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone. Ethmoid bone , a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.
• SICK-BRAINED
  Disordered in the brain.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• SUBSPHENOIDAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• FAT-BRAINED
  Dull of apprehension.
• 'TWIXT-BRAIN
  The thalamen
• MADBRAINED
  Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.