Word Meanings - SWIMMERET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

Related words: (words related to SWIMMERET)

• ABDOMINAL
  Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring , a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• FRINGY
  Aborned with fringes. Shak.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• BILOBED
  Bilobate.
• SWIMMINGNESS
  Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
• SERIES MOTOR
  A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
• 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.
• SERIES
  Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr.
• OCCUR
  1. To meet; to clash. The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. I must occur to one specious objection. Bentley. 3. To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer;
• FRINGILLACEOUS
  Fringilline.
• 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.
• SERIES TURNS
  The turns in a series circuit.
• FRINGE TREE
  A small oleaceous tree , of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.
• ABDOMINALIA
  A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.
• SWIMMING
  1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one
• ABDOMINALES
  A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• FRINGED
  Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear , a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• UNDERFRINGE
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.
• FREE-SWIMMING
  Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
• INFRINGE
  1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To