Word Meanings - TARDIGRADA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.

Related words: (words related to TARDIGRADA)

• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• NOTUM
  The back.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• SLOTHHOUND
  See SLEUTHHOUND
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• NOTATION
  1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
• NOTTURNO
  See NOCTURNE
• NOTCH
  1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• NOTUS
  The south wind.
• NOTARY
  A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• NOTAEUM
  The back or upper surface, as of a bird.
• NOTIONATE
  Notional.
• NOTIFY
  1. To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth. 2. To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the
• NOTAL
  Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• HUGUENOTISM
  The religion of the Huguenots in France.
• KNOTWEED
  See KNOT
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• POST NOTE
  A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.