Word Meanings - VERNACULARISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vernacular idiom.

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• VERNACULAR
  Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the
• IDIOMORPHOUS
  Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
• IDIOM
  1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general
• IDIOMORPHIC
  Idiomorphous.
• IDIOMUSCULAR
  Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
• VERNACULARLY
  In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular. Earle.
• VERNACULARISM
  A vernacular idiom.
• IDIOMATIC; IDIOMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• VERNACULARIZATION
  The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.
• NONVERNACULAR
  Not vernacular. A nonvernacular expression. Sir W. Hamilton.
• BROMIDIOM
  A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.
• HYPIDIOMORPHIC
  Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.
• PANIDIOMORPHIC
  Having a completely idiomorphic structure; -- said of certain rocks.
• ANIDIOMATIC; ANIDIOMATICAL; UNIDIOMATIC; UNIDIOMATICAL
  Not idiomatic. Landor.
• BASIDIOMYCETES
  A large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.