Word Meanings - SUBTRIANGULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. Darwin.

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• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• TRIANGULARES
  The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• TRIANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• PERFECTLY
  In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. "Perfectly divine." Milton. As many as touched were made perfectly whole. Matt. xiv. 36.
• TRIANGULARLY
  In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle. Dampier.
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• SUBTRIANGULAR
  Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. Darwin.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
• CURVILINEARLY
  In a curvilinear manner.
• LINEARLY
  In a linear manner; with lines.