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Word Meanings - TICHORRHINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

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  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • FOSSILIZATION
    The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • MEDIALUNA
    See HALF-MOON
  • FOSSILIZE
    1. To become fossil. 2. To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • VERTICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Perpendicular to the plane
  • FOSSIL
    Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
  • FOSSILIST
    One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
  • FOSSILIZED
    Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
  • VERTICALNESS
    Quality or state of being vertical.
  • SEPTUM
    A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus. One
  • SUPPORT
    1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. 3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling,
  • SUPPORTER
    A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
  • VERTICALITY
    The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.
  • SUPPORTMENT
    Support. Sir H. Wotton.
  • VERTICALLY
    In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.
  • RHINOCEROS
    Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidæ, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout
  • HAIRY
    Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. Milton.
  • SUPERMEDIAL
    Above the middle.
  • CORK FOSSIL
    A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
  • INSUPPORTABLE
    Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • SUBMEDIAL
    Lying under the middle.
  • UNSUPPORTABLE
    Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • REMEDIAL
    Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial,
  • REMEDIALLY
    In a remedial manner.
  • SARCOSEPTUM
    One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan.

 

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