Word Meanings - PTEROSTIGMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.

Related words: (words related to PTEROSTIGMA)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• OPAQUE
  1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. 2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• THICKEN
  To make thick . Specifically: -- To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. To strengthen; to confirm. And this may to thicken
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• CERTAIN
  certus determined, fixed, certain, orig. p. p. of cernere to perceive, decide, determine; akin to Gr. concern, critic, crime, 1. Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. To make her certain of the sad event. Dryden. I
• CERTAINLY
  Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• SEMIOPAQUE
  Half opaque; only half transparent.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• INCERTAIN
  Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.
• ASCERTAINER
  One who ascertains.
• INCERTAINTY
  Uncertainty. Shak.
• UNCERTAIN
  1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer. Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for. Tillotson. 2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable;
• ASCERTAIN
  1. To render certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream