Word Meanings - RADIATIFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower, Gray.

Related words: (words related to RADIATIFORM)

• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CAPITULATE
  1. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads
• MARGINALIA
  Marginal notes.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• LIGULATE; LIGULATED
  Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped. 2. Composed of ligules. Ligulate flower, a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular.
• MARGINALLY
  In the margin of a book.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• MARGINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• CAPITULAR
  1. An act passed in a chapter. 2. A member of a chapter. The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe. 3. The head or prominent part.
• RADIATIFORM
  Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower, Gray.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HEADSTONE
  1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.
• CAPITULA
  See CAPITULUM
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• RADIATE-VEINED
  Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.
• RADIATION
  1. The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness. 2. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.
• RECAPITULATORY
  Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• TRIRADIATE; TRIRADIATED
  Having three rays.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• INTRAMARGINAL
  Situated within the margin. Loudon.
• RECAPITULATE
  To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.