Word Meanings - PLEUROSTEON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.
Related words: (words related to PLEUROSTEON)
- LATERAL
Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation - LATERALLY
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side. - PIECER
1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads. - 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. - PIECEMEALED
Divided into pieces. - PIECEMEAL
1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope. - 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. - PIECELESS
Not made of pieces; whole; entire. - LATERALITY
The state or condition of being lateral. - PIECELY
In pieces; piecemeal. - ANTERO-
A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side. - STERNUM
A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone. Note: The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or - BIRDSEED
Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds. - ANTEROOM
A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. - PIECENER
1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2. - PIECE
One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. 6. A castle; a fortified building. Spenser. Of a piece, of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster, - PIECEWORK
Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - EPISTERNUM
One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron. - DRIFTPIECE
An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail. - CODPIECE
A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke. - HYPOSTERNUM
See HYPOPLASTRON - PRESTERNUM
The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back. - TIMEPIECE
A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer. - CHIMNEY-PIECE
A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace. - COLLATERALLY
1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation; - SEAPIECE
A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.