Word Meanings - DEFOLIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
Related words: (words related to DEFOLIATION)
- FALLALS; FAL-LALS
Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - FALLER
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls. - BRANCHLESS
Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked. - FALLOW
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. - BRANCHING
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton. - BRANCHIOPODA
An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It - BRANCHINESS
Fullness of branches. - FALLOPIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. - FALLENCY
An exception. Jer. Taylor. - BRANCHY
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott. - FALLEN
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers. - FALLFISH
A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species. - FALLING
from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness - FALLIBLY
In a fallible manner. - FALLAX
Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer. - SHEDDING
1. The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood. 2. That which is shed, or cast off. Wordsworth. - FALLOWNESS
A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett. - BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. - BRANCHLET
A little branch; a twig. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - NUDIBRANCHIATA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia. - ABRANCHIAL
Abranchiate. - PYGOBRANCHIA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - PODOBRANCH
One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea. - ASPIDOBRANCHIA
A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets. - LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n. - EPIBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - HYPOBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
See -ATE (more info) & n. - PERENNIBRANCHIATE
Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. - TECTIBRANCHIATE
Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n. - SCYPHOBRANCHII
An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families. - DERMOBRANCHIATE
Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.