Word Meanings - VERMIFORMIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.

WORMSEED
Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
TRIBE
A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
PHORONIS
A remarkable genus of marine worms having tentacles around the mouth. It is usually classed with the gephyreans. Its larva undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis.
INCLUDE
1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
INCLUDIBLE
Capable of being included.
CEPHALOTRIBE
An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
DIATRIBE
A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
SUBTRIBE
A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.