Word Meanings - MIDRIB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

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• LAMINARITE
  A broad-leafed fossil alga.
• LAMINABLE
  Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when
• LAMINARY
  Laminar.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• CONTINUATION
  1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay. 2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• LAMINABILITY
  The quality or state of being laminable.
• LAMINATING
  Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.
• PETIOLED
  Petiolate.
• LAMINA
  The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. Gray. (more info) 1. A thin plate or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
• PETIOLE
  A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
• EXTENDEDLY
  In an extended manner.
• LAMINARIA
  A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.
• LAMINATE
  Consisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
• LAMINARIAN
  Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea where the seaweeds of this genus grow.
• LAMINATED
  Laminate. Laminated arch , a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.
• EXTENDER
  One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.
• LAMINATION
  The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.
• INTERLAMINATION
  The state of being interlaminated.
• DELAMINATION
  Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated. Note: This process consists of a concentric splitting of the cells of the blastosphere into an outer layer
• INTERLAMINATED
  Placed between, or containing, laminæ or plates.
• INTERLAMELLAR; INTERLAMINAR
  Between lammellæ or laminæ; as, interlamellar spaces.
• COEXTEND
  To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all
• INEXTENDED
  Not extended.
• BILAMINAR; BILAMINATE
  Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.