Word Meanings - PROTOCONCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.
Related words: (words related to PROTOCONCH)
- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - CHAMBERING
Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13. - FIRST
Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - CHAMBERER
1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - CHAMBERED
Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun. - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - EMBRYONIC
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. Embryonic sac or vesicle , the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac. - OTHER
andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second - CHAMBERMAID
1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson. - FIRST-CLASS
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - OTHERNESS
The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness. - SHELLBARK
A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. - SHELLY
Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak. - SHELLAC; SHELL-LAC
See LAC - FIRSTLY
In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first. - CHAMBER
1. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. 2. To be lascivious. - SHELLED
Having a shell. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - SLIT-SHELL
Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - MASK SHELL
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture. - STAR-CHAMBER
An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.