Word Meanings - PELLIBRANCHIATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.

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• 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.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MANTLE
  See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments;
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• MANTLET
  See MANTELET
• ITSELF
  The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• PORTMANTLE
  A portmanteau.
• EMMANTLE
  To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. Holland.
• OUTMANTLE
  To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress. And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.
• IVY-MANTLED
  Covered with ivy.
• DISMANTLE
  dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest. 2. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town,
• IMMANTLE
  See EMMANTLE
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• LADY'S MANTLE
  A genus of rosaceous herbs , esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
• UNMANTLE
  To divest of a mantle; to uncover. Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you. Sir W. Scott.