Word Meanings - ANTICLINORIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.

Related words: (words related to ANTICLINORIUM)

• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• CRUSTAL
  Relating to a crust.
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• CRUSTINESS
  1. The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness. 2. The quality of being crusty or surly. Old Christy forgot his usual crustiness. W. Irving.
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• CRUSTACEOUS
  Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• CRUSTALOGY
  Crustaceology.
• CRUSTALOGIST
  One versed in crustalogy.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• EARTHDRAKE
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
• EARTHNUT
  A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
• EARTHEN
  Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
• EARTH SHINE
  See EARTH
• EARTHMAD
  The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
• EARTHEN-HEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
• CRUSTILY
  In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.
• PROCRUSTESIAN
  See PROCRUSTEAN
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• DECRUSTATION
  The removal of a crust.