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Word Meanings - TEREBRATULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

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  • LIVINGLY
    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • LIVELY
    1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • SHELL-LESS
    , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • LIVINGNESS
    The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
  • VALVE-SHELL
    Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
  • LIVED
    Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
  • LIVE
    liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
  • FOSSILIZATION
    The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • LIVERWORT
    1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
  • SHELLER
    One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
  • LIVING PICTURE
    A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
  • PERFORATA
    A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
    Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
  • GOROON SHELL
    A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
  • DELIVERANCE
    Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • REDELIVER
    1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
  • SPOUTSHELL
    Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.

 

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