Word Meanings - INTERSEPTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

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• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• STRIATION
  1. The quality or condition of being striated. 2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• SEPTANGULAR
  Heptagonal.
• INTERSEPTAL
  Between septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.
• STRIATE; STRIATED
  Marked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• SHELLBARK
  A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
• SHELLY
  Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.
• SHELLAC; SHELL-LAC
  See LAC
• SHELLED
  Having a shell.
• SEPTAEMIA
  Septicæmia.
• SHELLING
  Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.
• MUSCLE READING
  The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
• SEPTANE
  See HEPTANE
• SHELLFISH
  Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• UNSHELL
  To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
• EGGSHELL
  A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. (more info) 1. The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
• FROGSHELL
  One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• COCKLESHELL
  1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle. 2. A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.
• TURBAN-SHELL
  A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.