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Word Meanings - UNISEPTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having but one septum, or partition; -- said of two-celled fruits, such as the silicles of cruciferous plants.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • CELLARIST
    See CELLARER
  • CELLULOSE
    Consisting of, or containing, cells.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • CELLULE
    A small cell.
  • CELLED
    Containing a cell or cells.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • CELLAR
    A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
  • CELLEPORE
    A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • CELLIFEROUS
    Bearing or producing cells.
  • SEPTUM
    A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus. One
  • CRUCIFEROUS
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc. (more info) 1. Bearing a cross.
  • HAVOC
    Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
  • RUBICELLE
    A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.
  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • FRATRICELLI
    The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and
  • OCELLATED
    1. Resembling an eye. 2. Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny. Ocellated turkey , the wild turkey of Central America
  • INTERCELLULAR
    Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.
  • PSEUDONAVICELLA
    See PSEUDONAVICULA
  • PENNONCEL; PENNONCELLE
    See PENCEL
  • UNICELLULAR
    Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
  • ARCHCHANCELLOR
    A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
  • CANCELLATE
    Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • OCELLATE
    See OCELLATED
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • INVOLUCELLUM
    See INVOLUCEL
  • TERCELLENE
    A small male hawk. Sir T. Browne.

 

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