Word Meanings - PTERIDOPHYTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular
Additional info about word: PTERIDOPHYTA
A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular Cryptogamia.
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- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - CLASSIFIC
Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - VASCULARITY
The quality or state of being vascular. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - CLASSIFICATORY
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - MODERN
1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common; - CLASSICISM
A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - UNDERSTOOD
imp. & p. p. of Understand. - OOPHYTE; OOEPHYTE
Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SCOLDER
1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw. - MOLDER; MOULDER
One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.