Word Meanings - THECAPHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecæ. See Basigynium.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• THECAL
  Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• BASIGYNIUM
  The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• RHAMPHOTHECA
  The horny covering of the bill of birds.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• HYPOTHECATOR
  One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ATHECATA
  A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.