Word Meanings - FILIPENDULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

Related words: (words related to FILIPENDULOUS)

• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• THREADFISH
  The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• THREADER
  1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• THREADFIN
  Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• TUBEROUS
  Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. -- Tu"ber*ous*ness, n. (more info) 1. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• SUSPEND
  To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action. To suspend payment , to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc. Syn. -- To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay;
• THREADBARENESS
  The state of being threadbare.
• THREAD-SHAPED
  Having the form of a thread; filiform.
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• STRUNG
  imp. & p. p. of String.
• SUSPENDER
  One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
• THREADWORM
  Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
• THREADINESS
  Quality of being thready.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• THREAD
  wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
• PROTUBEROUS
  Protuberant.