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Word Meanings - TRACHEOPHONAE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.

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  • TRACHEA
    The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • LOWERMOST
    Lowest.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • LOWERY
    Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • TRACHEARY
    Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n.
  • SYRINX
    A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • PASSERINE
    Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • TRACHEATE
    Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
  • LOWER
    Compar. of Low, a.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • HAVOC
    Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
  • LOWER-CASE
    Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • SUBGROUP
    A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

 

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