Word Meanings - WOOD-LAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
Related words: (words related to WOOD-LAYER)
- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - YOUNGNESS
The quality or state of being young. - TIMBERMAN
A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale. - TIMBER
A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL. - HEDGELESS
Having no hedge. - HEDGEPIG
A young hedgehog. Shak. - PLANTOCRACY
Government by planters; planters, collectively. - YOUNG ONE
A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt. - PLANTERSHIP
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - PLANTLESS
Without plants; barren of vegetation. - HEDGEBOTE
See HAYBOTE - HEDGEHOG
A small European insectivore , and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. - MOTHER'S DAY
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who - STEPMOTHER
The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.