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Word Meanings - QUADRIVALVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.

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  • VALVE-SHELL
    Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
  • VALVAL; VALVAR
    Valvular.
  • SIMILARY
    Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
  • PERICARP
    The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
  • VALVULE
    A small valvelike process. (more info) 1. A little valve; a valvelet.
  • VALVULAR
    1. Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically , of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease. 2. Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
  • VALVELET
    A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
  • VALVATE
    1. Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular. Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in æstivation, and of leaves in vernation. Opening as if
  • VALVASOR
    See VAVASOR
  • SIMILARLY
    In a similar manner.
  • DEHISCENT
    Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
  • PERICARPIAL; PERICARPIC
    Of or pertaining to a pericarp.
  • VALVE
    One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves. One of the
  • VALVULA
    A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
  • SIMILARITY
    The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • VALVED
    Having a valve or valve; valvate.
  • QUADRIVALVE
    Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.
  • VALVATA
    A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
  • SIMILAR
    1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like. 2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness. 3. Homogenous; uniform. Boyle. Similar figures , figures which differ from
  • INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
    Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
  • PILOT VALVE
    A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
  • MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
    Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves.
  • DISSIMILARLY
    In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
  • UNIVALVIA
    See GASTROPODA
  • EQUIVALVE; EQUIVALVED
    Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
  • FOOT VALVE
    A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.
  • TUBIVALVE
    A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.
  • QUADRIVALVULAR
    Having four valves; quadrivalve.
  • BLOW VALVE
    See VALVE
  • DISSIMILAR
    Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.

 

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