Word Meanings - POSTCLAVICLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle. -- Post`*cla*vic"u*lar, a.

Related words: (words related to POSTCLAVICLE)

• 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
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• PECTORAL
  Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper. Pectoral arch, or Pectoral girdle , the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the fore limbs are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• PECTORALLY
  As connected with the breast.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• BACKWARDATION
  The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.
• BACKWARDLY
  1. Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Perversely; ill. And does he think so backwardly of me Shak.
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• PROJECTILE
  1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.
• BACKWARD
  1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope. 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward
• PROJECT
  of projicere to project; pro forward + jacere to throw. See Jet a 1. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. Holland. 2. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan. Vented much
• GIRDLE
  A griddle.
• CLAVICLE
  The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter (more info) tendril, dim. of clavis key, akin to claudere to shut. See
• BACKWARDNESS
  The state of being backward.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• POSTCLAVICLE
  A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle. -- Post`*cla*vic"u*lar, a.
• SUPRACLAVICLE
  A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post- temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.
• COMPRESSION PROJECTILE
  A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and
• INTERCLAVICLE
  See EPISTERNUM