Word Meanings - CRASPEDOTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

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• MEDUSIFORM
  Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.
• MEDUSA
  The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
• NAKOO
  The gavial.
• NAKED
  Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales. (more info) nacchot, nahhot, Icel. nökvi, nakinn,
• HYDROIDEA
  Note: This order includes the hydras and the free-swimming hydromedusæ, together with a great variety of marine attached hydroids, many of which grow up into large, elegantly branched forms, consisting of a vast number of zooids , united
• HYDROID
  Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n.
• MEDUSOID
  Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids. -- n.
• MEDUSIAN
  A medusa.
• NAKEDNESS
  The privy parts; the genitals. Ham ... saw the nakedness of his father. Gen. ix. 22. (more info) 1. The condition of being naked.
• NAKEDLY
  In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.
• NAKE
  ,v.t. To make naked. Chaucer. Come, be ready, nake your swords. Old Play.
• NAKER
  See NACRE
• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• SCYPHOMEDUSA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE
  See DISCOPHORA
• BEADSNAKE
  A small poisonous snake of North America , banded with yellow, red, and black.
• MANAKIN
  Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridæ. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name
• POLYPOMEDUSAE
  See HYDROZOA
• HOGNOSESNAKE
  A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.
• KANACKA; KANAKA
  A native of the Sandwich Islands.
• SNAKE'S-HEAD
  The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. Dr. Prior. Snake's-head iris , an iridaceous plant (Hermodactylus tuberosus) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble
• SNAKY
  1. Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding. The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life. L. Wallace. 2. Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful. So to the coast of Jordan
• SNAKEHEAD
  1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car. The turtlehead. The Guinea-hen flower.
• PINAKOTHEK
  Pinacotheca.
• SNAKEWEED
  A kind of knotweed . The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• PHENAKISTOSCOPE
  A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual
• BLACK SNAKE; BLACKSNAKE
  A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other