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Word Meanings - LAMELLICORNIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • EATAGE
    Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • EATH
    Easy or easily. "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.
  • LAMELLICORNIA
    A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.
  • EATABLE
    Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
  • BEETLESTOCK
    The handle of a beetle.
  • PLANTIGRADA
    A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
  • PLANTULE
    The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
  • PLANTIGRADE
    Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
  • EAT
    akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • CALLIOPE
    The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
  • EATING
    1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding. 2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • PLANTLESS
    Without plants; barren of vegetation.
  • COLLINEATION
    The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
  • MEATY
    Abounding in meat.
  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • REPEAT
    To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
  • DISPLANTATION
    The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • SUPPLANT
    heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • UNCREATED
    1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
  • LEAT
    An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.
  • WEATHERING
    The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • UNSHEATHE
    To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • IDEAT; IDEATE
    The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.

 

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