Word Meanings - VALVULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.

Related words: (words related to VALVULA)

• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• VALVULE
  A small valvelike process. (more info) 1. A little valve; a valvelet.
• VALVELET
  A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• VALVE
  One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves. One of the
• VALVED
  Having a valve or valve; valvate.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
  Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
  Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• EQUIVALVE; EQUIVALVED
  Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
• FOOT VALVE
  A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.
• TUBIVALVE
  A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.
• BLOW VALVE
  See VALVE
• MULTIVALVE
  Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces.
• KINGSTON VALVE
  A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.
• BIVALVE
  A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles
• UNIVALVE
  A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs. Note: Most univalves are spiral and are the shells of gastropods, but many belong to cephalopods and pteropods. A large number of
• THREE-VALVED
  Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
• DOUBLE-BEAT VALVE
  See VALVE