Word Meanings - SALVER-SHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.

Related words: (words related to SALVER-SHAPED)

• HYPOCRATERIMORPHOUS
  Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.
• TUBULARIAN
  Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
• TUBULARIAE
  See TUBULARIDA
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• BORDER
  bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders
• TUBULAR
  Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes. Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. -- Tubular breathing , a variety of respiratory sound, heard
• TUBULARIDA
  An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariæ.
• BORDERER
  One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.
• TUBULARIA
  A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• INTERTUBULAR
  Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance.
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• SUBORDER
  A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.
• MULTITUBULAR
  Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.
• EMBORDER
  To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.