Word Meanings - IMAGINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks , masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed. (more info) 1. Characterized by

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Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks , masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed. (more info) 1. Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• ADULTERY
  The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• ADULT
  Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• ADULTER
  To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson.
• FORME
  See PATTé
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.