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Word Meanings - ENDODERM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal. The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

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  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • INNERVATION
    Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating.
  • DERIVE
    To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • LAYERING
    A propagating by layers. Gardner.
  • INNERLY
    More within. Baret.
  • ILLUSTROUS
    Without luster.
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • ILLUSTRIOUS
    1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
  • ANIMAL
    1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
  • BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
    Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
  • INNERMOSTLY
    In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.
  • ILLUSTRATIVELY
    By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
  • ANIMALCULE
    An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
  • HYPOBLASTIC
    Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac.
  • ILLUSTRATIVE
    1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
  • ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
  • DERIVATIVE
    Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
  • WAYLAYER
    One who waylays another.
  • TWINNER
    One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
  • TRACKLAYER
    Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
  • DINNERLY
    Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.
  • MISDERIVE
    1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.

 

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