Word Meanings - QUADRIVALVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.
Related words: (words related to QUADRIVALVE)
- 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.