Word Meanings - OPPOSITIFOLIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.

Related words: (words related to OPPOSITIFOLIOUS)

• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• SEPARATIVE
  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• SEPARATICAL
  Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• SEPARATORY
  Separative. Cheyne.
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• PLACOIDIAN
  One of the placoids.
• PLACABLENESS
  The quality of being placable.
• PLACITORY
  Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. Clayton.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.