Word Meanings - ENNEAGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
Related words: (words related to ENNEAGON)
- SIDESADDLE
A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia. - PLANE TREE
See PLANE - POLYGONAL
Having many angles. Polygonal numbers, certain figurate numbers. See under Figurate. - POLYGONOMETRY
The doctrine of polygons; an extension of some of the principles of trigonometry to the case of polygons. - POLYGONUM
A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc. - POLYGONOUS
Polygonal. - PLANETULE
A little planet. Conybeare. - POLYGONEUTIC
Having two or more broods in a season. - PLANE-PARALLEL
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. - PLANETED
Belonging to planets. Young. - PLANETOIDAL
Pertaining to a planetoid. - PLANET
A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used - PLANETARIUM
An orrery. See Orrery. - PLANER TREE
A small-leaved North American tree related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit. - PLANE TABLE
See A - PLANE
Any tree of the genus Platanus. Note: The Oriental plane is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting - ANGLESITE
A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. - SIDESMAN
1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman. - PLANETOID
A body resembling a planet; an asteroid. - POLYGONY
Any plant of the genus Polygonum. - HYDROBIPLANE
A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes. - CONFIGURE
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite. - CONVEXO-PLANE
Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex. - DOORPLANE
A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant. - CAPPING PLANE
A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails. - VOLPLANE
To glide in a flying machine. - INTERPLANETARY
Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle. - PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
One unprovided with motive power.