Word Meanings - TEGMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.

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• TEGUMENT
  1. A cover or covering; an integument. 2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• EPIBLASTIC
  Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• TEGMENTUM
  A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
• TASTELESS
  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
• LAYER
  That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
• EPIBLAST
  The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.
• TASTEFUL
  1. Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." Pope. 2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. -- Taste"ful*ly, adv. -- Taste"ful*ness, n.
• TEGMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
• TEGUMENTARY
  Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• FORETASTE
  A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
• ALETASTER
  See ALECONNER
• PURKINJE'S CELLS
  Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum.
• CATASTERISM
  A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• SLAYER
  One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
• UNDERLAYER
  A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
• AFTERTASTE
  A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.