Word Meanings - PROGLOTTIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

Related words: (words related to PROGLOTTIS)

• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• TAPEWORM
  Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Tænia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than
• CAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
• BRIEFLESS
  Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.
• INDEPENDENT
  Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. (more info) 1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but
• BRIEFMAN
  1. One who makes a brief. 2. A copier of a manuscript.
• INDEPENDENTLY
  In an independent manner; without control.
• BRIEF
  1. Short in duration. How brief the life of man. Shak. 2. Concise; terse; succinct. The brief style is that which expresseth much in little. B. Jonson. 3. Rife; common; prevalent. In brief. See under Brief, Syn. -- Short; concise; succinct;
• INDEPENDENTISM
  Independency; the church system of Independents. Bp. Gauden.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• EXISTENCE
  1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock. 2. Continued
• CAPABLE
  1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2.
• REPRODUCTIVE
  Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.
• BRIEFNESS
  The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• SEMIBRIEF
  A semibreve.
• PREEXISTENCE
  1. Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth. T. Burnet. 2. Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain
• POSTEXISTENCE
  Subsequent existence.
• INEXISTENCE
  Inherence; subsistence. Bp. Hall. That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker.
• SELF-EXISTENCE
  Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Blackmore.
• UNSCAPABLE
  Not be escaped; inevitable. Wyclif.
• CURVILINEARLY
  In a curvilinear manner.