Word Meanings - SPHAEROSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• TETRASPORE
  A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.
• NONSEXUAL
  Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• FOUNDERSHAFT
  The first shaft sunk. Raymond.
• FOUNDRY
  1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. 2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.
• FOUNDATIONLESS
  Having no foundation.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• REFOUND
  1. To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton. 2. To found or establish again; to re
• CHEST FOUNDER
  A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
• REFOUNDER
  One who refounds.
• DUMFOUNDER
  To dumfound; to confound.
• UNCONFOUNDED
  Not confounded. Bp. Warburton.
• PROFOUND
  1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton. 2. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound