Word Meanings - DENTIGEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.
Related words: (words related to DENTIGEROUS)
- BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - BEARDLESSNESS
The state or quality of being destitute of beard. - BEARABLE
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv. - BEAR
produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold - BEARDIE
The bearded loach of Europe. - TEETH
pl. of Tooth. - BEARDLESS
1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat. - BEARING CLOTH
A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak. - BEARDED
Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata. - BEARING REIN
A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein. - BEARBIND
The bindweed . - BEAR'S-FOOT
A species of hellebore , with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic. - BEAR-TRAP DAM
A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river. - BEARBERRY
A trailing plant of the heath family , having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond. - BEARISHNESS
Behavior like that of a bear. - BEARN
See BAIRN - BEARING
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray. The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - ANT-BEAR
An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. - GRAYBEARD
An old man. Shak. - MISBEAR
To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer. - FORKBEARD
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard. - PALLBEARER
One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. - UNDERBEARER
One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall. - ABEARANCE
Behavior. Blackstone. - RUSH-BEARING
A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. Nares. - TALEBEARER
One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay. - TREEBEARD
A pendulous branching lichen ; -- so called from its resemblance to hair. - FOREBEAR
An ancestor. See Forbear.