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Word Meanings - INTERCENTRUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.

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  • COMPOSITOUS
    Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
  • THREE-SQUARE
    Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
  • CENTRALLY
    In a central manner or situation.
  • THREE-MILE
    Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
  • FOSSILIZATION
    The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • THREE-PILE
    An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
  • THREE-DECKER
    A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
  • THREE-SIDED
    Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
  • COMPOSURE
    1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
  • THREE-CORNERED
    Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
  • VERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
  • COMPOSSIBLE
    Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
  • THREE-PORT
    Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • THREE-PLY
    Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • MEDIAN
    Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which
  • THREE-PARTED
    Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
  • FOSSIL
    Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
  • THREE-FLOWERED
    Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
  • INDECOMPOSABLENESS
    Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
  • SACROVERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
  • INVERTEBRATE
    Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
  • INVERTEBRATA
    A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • CORK FOSSIL
    A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
  • INVERTEBRATED
    Having no backbone; invertebrate.

 

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