Word Meanings - TRINUCLEUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.

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• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• THREE-PLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• THREE-PARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.