Word Meanings - UTRICULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to a utricle, or utriculus; containing, or furnished with, a utricle or utricles; utriculate; as, a utricular plant. 2. Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; -- said especially with reference to the condition

Additional info about word: UTRICULAR

1. Of or pertaining to a utricle, or utriculus; containing, or furnished with, a utricle or utricles; utriculate; as, a utricular plant. 2. Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; -- said especially with reference to the condition of certain substances, as sulphur, selenium, etc., when condensed from the vaporous state and deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small globules filled with liquid.

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  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
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• CONDITIONAL
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• UTRICLE
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• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PLANTERSHIP
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• MINUTELY
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• CONDITIONATE
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• DISPLANTATION
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• SUPPLANT
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• ENLARGEMENT
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• LAMINIPLANTAR
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• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
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