Word Meanings - FINNS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Natives of Finland; Finlanders. A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.

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• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• LAPPS
  A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• 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.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• FINLANDER
  A native or inhabitant of Finland.
• BRANCHY
  Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
• EASTERN CHURCH
  That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• INHABIT
  To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide. Shak. They say wild beasts inhabit here. Waller.
• EASTERNMOST
  Most eastern.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• DERMOBRANCHIATE
  Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.