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Word Meanings - PHARYNX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.

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  • HIGHER-UP
    A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
  • HIGHERING
    Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
  • CANAL
    A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
  • LATERAL
    Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
  • LATERALLY
    By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
  • CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
    Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
  • EXTERNAL
    Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
  • MOUTHFUL
    1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
  • THROUGH
    thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
  • CANALIZATION
    Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
  • MOUTHED
    1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
  • EXTERNALLY
    In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
  • MOUTH
    An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
  • ALIMENTARY
    Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the
  • LATERALITY
    The state or condition of being lateral.
  • EXTERNALITY
    State of being external; exteriority;
  • EXTERNALIZE
    To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.
  • CANALICULUS
    A minute canal.
  • ESOPHAGUS
    That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
  • THROUGHLY
    Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • EPIBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • HYPOBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • DECANAL
    Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
  • LOUD-MOUTHED
    Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
  • PERIBRANCHIAL
    Surrounding the branchiæ; as, a peribranchial cavity.
  • REDMOUTH
    Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
  • SPLAYMOUTH
    A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
  • FLAP-MOUTHED
    Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
  • HOT-MOUTHED
    Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
  • FOUL-MOUTHED
    Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.
  • FROGMOUTH
    One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

 

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