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The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.

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  • NOMENCLATURE
    1. A name. Bacon. 2. A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary. 3. The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier
  • WILDERNESS
    1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. 2. A disorderly or
  • WILDER
    To bewilder; to perplex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant. (more info) bewildered, villa to bewilder; cf. AS. wildor a wild animal. See
  • WILDERMENT
    The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment. And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death. Moore.
  • WILDERING
    A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.
  • DESIGNATION
    1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of
  • BEWILDER
    To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison. Syn. -- To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound;
  • BEWILDERING
    Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.
  • BEWILDERMENT
    1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
  • BEWILDERED
    Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.
  • BEWILDEREDNESS
    The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.

 

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