bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - -BLAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.

Related words: (words related to -BLAST)

  • MESOBLASTIC
    Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
  • SUFFIX
    A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
  • EPIBLASTIC
    Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.
  • FORMATIVE
    Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative. (more info) 1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing
  • SIGNIFY
    1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus
  • SUFFIXION
    The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.
  • GROWTHEAD
    A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
  • SUFFIXMENT
    Suffixion. Earle.
  • TERMINALIA
    A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.
  • GROWTH
    1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
  • PRINCIPALLY
    In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
  • GROWTHFUL
    Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
  • FORMATION
    The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow. (more info) 1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie. 2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation;
  • EPIBLAST
    The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.
  • BIOBLAST
    See BIOPLAST
  • TERMINAL
    Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike. Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal velocity. The velocity acquired at the end of a
  • MESOBLAST
    The mesoderm. The cell nucleus; mesoplast.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
  • AFFORMATIVE
    An affix.
  • PREFORMATIVE
    A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
  • BIOLOGIC; BIOLOGICAL
    Of or relating to biology. -- Bi`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • MISGROWTH
    Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
  • DEFORMATION
    1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
  • INGROWTH
    A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
  • OUTGROWTH
    That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
  • AMPHIBIOLOGICAL
    Pertaining to amphibiology.
  • TRANSFORMATION
    The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
  • INFORMATION
    A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
  • CONTERMINAL
    Conterminous.
  • MALECONFORMATION
    Malconformation.
  • EFFORMATION
    The act of giving shape or form. Ray.
  • FORESIGNIFY
    To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.

 

Back to top