Word Meanings - HELIOLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.

Related words: (words related to HELIOLITE)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• CORALLUM
  The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• RAYLESS
  Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• RAYONNANT
  Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• TRAY-TRIP
  An old game played with dice. Shak.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• CRAY; CRAYER
  See CRARE
• TRAY
  To betray; to deceive. Chaucer.
• STING RAY; STINGRAY
  Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
• BETA RAYS
  Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much
• GRAYWACKE
  A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together. Note: This term, derved from the grauwacke of German miners, was formerly applied in geology to different grits and slates of the Silurian series; but it is
• FRAY
  Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• TETRACORALLA
  See RUGOSA