Word Meanings - JUMPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

of Jump, to leap. Jumping bean, a seed of a Mexican Euphorbia, containing the larva of a moth . The larva by its sudden movements causes the seed to roll to roll and jump about. -- Jumping deer , a South African rodent , allied to the jerboa.

Additional info about word: JUMPING

of Jump, to leap. Jumping bean, a seed of a Mexican Euphorbia, containing the larva of a moth . The larva by its sudden movements causes the seed to roll to roll and jump about. -- Jumping deer , a South African rodent , allied to the jerboa. -- Jumping jack, a toy figure of a man, jointed and made to jump or dance by means of strings. -- Jumping louse , any of the numerous species of plant lice belonging to the family Psyllidæ, several of which are injurious to fruit trees. -- Jumping mouse , North American mouse , having a long tail and large hind legs. It is noted for its jumping powers. Called also kangaroo mouse. -- Jumping mullet , gray mullet. -- Jumping shrew , any African insectivore of the genus Macroscelides. They are allied to the shrews, but have large hind legs adapted for jumping. -- Jumping spider , spider of the genus Salticus and other related genera; one of the Saltigradæ; -- so called because it leaps upon its prey.

Related words: (words related to JUMPING)

• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
  Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
• RODENTIA
  An order of mammals having two large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. Note: The incisor teeth are long, curved, and strongly enameled on the outside,
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• AFRICAN
  A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• ALLITERATOR
  One who alliterates.
• ALLIED
  United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• ALLICE; ALLIS
  The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
• JUMPWELD
  See T
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• CORRODENT
  Corrosive. Bp. King.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• MISALLIED
  Wrongly allied or associated.
• BALLISTER
  A crossbow.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.