Word Meanings - HERBIVORA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups . They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

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• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• LATTERLY
  Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• LATTERKIN
  A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• PROBOSCIDEAN
  Proboscidian.
• MAMMALIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
• HYRACOIDEA
  An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• MAMMALIA
  The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother. Note: Mammalia are divided into threes subclasses; --I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• VEGETATION
  An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts , a crystalline growth of an arborescent form. (more info) 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• BLATTER
  To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• BLATTEROON
  A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• CLATTERINGLY
  With clattering.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.