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Word Meanings - CAPITULUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A knobike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. Note: (more info) 1. A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

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  • THICKENING
    Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • CARTILAGE
    A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
  • THICK WIND
    A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • THICK
    1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • THICK-SKINNED
    Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
  • GLOBULARLY
    Spherically.
  • THICKNESS
    The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • THICKSET
    1. A close or thick hedge. 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath.
  • THICK-WINDED
    Affected with thick wind.
  • THICKBILL
    The bullfinch.
  • PROTUBERANCE
    That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • SHORTHEAD
    A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • FIBROCARTILAGE
    A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
  • GLOBEFLOWER
    A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.

 

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