Word Meanings - AMIOIDEI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• ORDERING
  Disposition; distribution; management. South.
• BOWFIN
  A voracious ganoid fish found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
• GANOIDAL
  Ganoid.
• GANOIDIAN
  Ganoid.
• ORDERABLE
  Capable of being ordered; tractable. Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
• ORDERER
  1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates. 2. One who gives orders.
• GANOIDEI
  One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales. Note: They
• GANOID
  Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei. Ganoid scale , one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.
• ORDERLESS
  Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• RHOMBOGANOIDEI
  See GINGLYMODI
• CHONDROGANOIDEA
  An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• MISORDERLY
  Irregular; disorderly.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• PLACOGANOIDEI
  A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
• RECORDER
  A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the
• SUPERORDER
  A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
• DISORDERED
  1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
• CYCLOGANOIDEI
  An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin is a living example.
• RECORDERSHIP
  The office of a recorder.
• REORDER
  To order a second time.