Word Meanings - FILIPENDULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
Related words: (words related to FILIPENDULOUS)
- MIDDLE
1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. - SLENDER
Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen, - MIDDLE-GROUND
That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. - THREADFISH
The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads. - MIDDLE-EARTH
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak. - THREADER
1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut. - MIDDLEMAN
The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, - THREADFIN
Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments. - MIDDLER
One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries. - MIDDLE-AGE
Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval. - TUBEROUS
Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. -- Tu"ber*ous*ness, n. (more info) 1. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed. - MIDDLEMOST
Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost. - THREADBARENESS
The state of being threadbare. - SUSPEND
To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action. To suspend payment , to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc. Syn. -- To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay; - THREAD-SHAPED
Having the form of a thread; filiform. - THREADY
1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread. - STRUNG
imp. & p. p. of String. - SUSPENDER
One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers. - THREADWORM
Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria. - THREADINESS
Quality of being thready. - DOUBLETHREADED
Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads. - THREAD
wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, - PROTUBEROUS
Protuberant.