Word Meanings - DACTYLOZOOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.

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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.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• 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.
• MOUTH
  1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant. I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Cæsar, till I shake the senate. Addison. 2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. Shak. 3. To make grimaces,
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• ELONGATION
  The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury. (more info) 1. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. "Elongation of the fibers." Arbuthnot. 2. That which lengthens
• ZOOID
  Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
• SIPHONOPHORA
  An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others
• TENTACLE
  A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath , a sheathlike structure around the base
• SIPHONOPHORAN
  Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n.
• VERMIFORMIA
  A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
• MOUTHPIECE
  1. The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe. 2. An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or
• MOUTH-FOOTED
  Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
• MOUTH-MADE
  Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.
• MOUTHER
  One who mouths; an affected speaker.
• VERMIFORM
  Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum. Vermiform appendix , a slender blind process of the cæcum in man and some other animals; -- called also vermiform appendage, and vermiform process.
• TENTACLED
  Having tentacles.
• ELONGATE
  1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. 2. To remove further off. Sir T. Browne.
• ZOOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.
• MOUTHLESS
  Destitute of a mouth.
• SPERMATOZOOID
  A spermatozoid.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• TRITOZOOID
  A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• DACTYLOZOOID
  A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
• FOUL-MOUTHED
  Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.
• DEUTEROZOOID
  One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
• FROGMOUTH
  One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• SALTMOUTH
  A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
• SUSTENTACLE
  Sustenance. Dr. H. More.