Word Meanings - FLAGELLUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses. A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata. An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail. A lashlike appendage
Additional info about word: FLAGELLUM
A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses. A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata. An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail. A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennæ and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.
Related words: (words related to FLAGELLUM)
- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - BRANCHLESS
Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked. - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - SHOOTING
1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain; - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - 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. - YOUNGNESS
The quality or state of being young. - 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, - PLANTOCRACY
Government by planters; planters, collectively. - BRANCHY
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott. - YOUNG ONE
A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt. - PLANTERSHIP
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. - SNAIL
A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. 4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - 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. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - 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. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - 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.