Word Meanings - DIVERTICULUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

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• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• BRANCHIOPODA
  An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
• BRANCHINESS
  Fullness of branches.
• BLINDNESS
  State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
• BLIND; BLINDE
  See BLENDE
• BRANCHY
  Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
• BLINDFISH
  A small fish destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
• BLINDER
  One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinds.
• BLINDAGE
  A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
• BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
  Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
• BRANCHLET
  A little branch; a twig.
• BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
  Branchiostegal.
• BRANCHIOSTEGE
  The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
• BLINDING
  Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
• BRANCHIOPOD
  One of the Branchiopoda.
• BRANCHIOMERISM
  The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim.
• BLINDFOLD
  To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• HYPOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
  See -ATE (more info) & n.
• PERENNIBRANCHIATE
  Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
• TECTIBRANCHIATE
  Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n.
• SCYPHOBRANCHII
  An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
• DERMOBRANCHIATE
  Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.
• CIRROBRANCHIATA
  A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• INFEROBRANCHIATA
  A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.