Word Meanings - PARASPHENOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• SKULLCAP
  Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• IMMEDIATELY
  1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• SPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone. Sphenoid bone , an irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates. It is composed of several fetal bones which become united the adult. See Alisphenoid,
• APPLIER
  He who, or that which, applies.
• APPLICATORY
  Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.
• SPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid. (more info) 1. Sphenoid.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• SUBSPHENOIDAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• PARASPHENOID
  Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• ALISPHENOID; ALISPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• ALISPHENOID
  The alisphenoid bone.
• BASISPHENOID; BASISPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.