Word Meanings - MUSCALES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.

Related words: (words related to MUSCALES)

• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• HEPATIC
  Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, or scale mosses and liverworts. Hepatic duct , any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust.,
• HEPATICAL
  Hepatic.
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• HEPATICA
  A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
• SENSELESS
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• SUPRAHEPATIC
  Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• SUBHEPATIC
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.
• GASTROHEPATIC
  Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• UNSENSED
  Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. Puller.