Word Meanings - QUADRATOJUGAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quadratojugal bone. Quadratojugal bone , a bone at the base of the lower jaw in many animals. (more info) Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones. Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone. -- n.

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• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• JUGAL
  Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone. (more info) 1. Relating to a yoke, or to marriage.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• QUADRATOJUGAL
  The quadratojugal bone. Quadratojugal bone , a bone at the base of the lower jaw in many animals. (more info) Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones. Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone. -- n.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• LOWER-CASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• LOWERING
  Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
• QUADRATE
  four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an 1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some
• BONESETTER
  One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
• LOWERINGLY
  In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
• BONESHAW
  Sciatica.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• CONJUGAL
  Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial. "Conjugal affection." Milton.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• BALL-FLOWER
  An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.