Word Meanings - GALLINACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

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• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• GALLINAE
  An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DOMESTICANT
  Forming part of the same family. Sir E. Dering.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• DOMESTICALLY
  In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
• DOMESTICAL
  Domestic. Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.
• DOMESTICATOR
  One who domesticates.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• DOMESTICITY
  The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
• DOMESTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• UNDOMESTICATE
  To make wild or roving.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.