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Word Meanings - VINETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sprig or branch. Halliwell.

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  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • BRANCHLESS
    Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
  • SPRIGGED
    Having sprigs.
  • BRANCHING
    Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
  • BRANCHIOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
  • BRANCHINESS
    Fullness of branches.
  • SPRIGHTFUL
    Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley.
  • BRANCHY
    Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
  • SPRIG
    A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point. (more info) 1. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley. 2. A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement. A sprig whom I remember,
  • BRANCH
    1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. 2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.
  • BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
    Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
  • BRANCHLET
    A little branch; a twig.
  • BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
    Branchiostegal.
  • BRANCHIOSTEGE
    The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • SPRIGGY
    Full of sprigs or small branches.
  • BRANCHIOPOD
    One of the Branchiopoda.
  • BRANCHIOMERISM
    The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim.
  • SPRIGHT
    1. Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. "The high heroic spright." Spenser. Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. Spenser. 2. A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread,
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • PODOBRANCH
    One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
    Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
  • EPIBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • HYPOBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
    See -ATE (more info) & n.
  • PERENNIBRANCHIATE
    Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
  • TECTIBRANCHIATE
    Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n.
  • SCYPHOBRANCHII
    An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
  • DERMOBRANCHIATE
    Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.
  • CIRROBRANCHIATA
    A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
  • INFEROBRANCHIATA
    A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.
  • CRYPTOBRANCHIATA
    A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. A group of nudibranch mollusks.

 

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