Word Meanings - HEMIDACTYL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.

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• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• DILATIVE
  Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• DILATORILY
  With delay; tardily.
• WORLD-WIDE
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• DILATATION
  A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. (more info) 1. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. "What needeth greater dilatation" Chaucer. 2. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al
• WORLDLING
  A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
• DILATE
  1. To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions. His heart dilates and glories in his strength. Addison. 2. To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon. But still on their ancient joys
• DILATED
  Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak.
• DILATION
  Delay. Bp. Hall.
• DILATER
  One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
• DILATABLE
  Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
• WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
  Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
• DILATOR
  A muscle that dilates any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, widens or expands.
• WORLDLINESS
  The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
• DILATORINESS
  The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
• DILATEDLY
  In a dilated manner. Feltham.
• DILATATOR
  A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• INTERWORLD
  A world between other worlds. Holland.
• SUBDILATED
  Partially dilated.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• UNDERWORLD
  1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads This underworld. Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite
• VASODILATOR
  Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso- inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since
• INDILATORY
  Not dilatory.