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.
• 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 .
• EATAGE
  Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
• 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.
• MEATY
  Abounding in meat.
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• 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.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• LEAT
  An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• 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.
• 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.