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. - ORGANOGENY
Organogenesis. - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - 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. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - HYPOTHECATOR
One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed. - 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.