Word Meanings - HYDROCORALLIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.

Related words: (words related to HYDROCORALLIA)

• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• CORALLUM
  The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• CORALLIAN
  A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• GENERA
  See GENUS
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• GENERANT
  Generative; producing; esp. ,
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• CORALLIGENA
  See ANTHOZOA
• STONY
  1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.