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Word Meanings - HYDROCORALLIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.

Related words: (words related to HYDROCORALLIA)

  • CORALLIGENOUS
    producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
  • PROJECTION
    The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
  • CORALLUM
    The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
  • CORAL-RAG
    See CORALLIAN
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • PROJECTMENT
    Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
  • SECRETE
    To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
  • GENERABILITY
    Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
  • GENERALIZED
    Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • GENERALIZABLE
    Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
  • CORALLIAN
    A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • GENERA
    See GENUS
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • GENERANT
    Generative; producing; esp. ,
  • GENERALTY
    Generality. Sir M. Hale.
  • CORALLIGENA
    See ANTHOZOA
  • STONY
    1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • UNREGENERACY
    The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • RETROGENERATIVE
    Begetting young by retrocopulation.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • MISDIVISION
    Wrong division.
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

 

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