Word Meanings - SKELETONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Related words: (words related to SKELETONIZE)

• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• SKELETON
  The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
• MONTHLY
  1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon. 2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.
• REDUCER
  One who, or that which, reduces.
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• SKELETONIZER
  Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
• SKELETONIZE
  To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
• REDUCENT
  Tending to reduce. -- n.
• PREPARED
  Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.
• PREPARE
  1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• BIMONTHLY
  Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.
• DISPREPARE
  To render unprepared. Hobbes.
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• SEMIMONTHLY
  Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. -- n.
• ENDOSKELETON
  The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.
• SPLANCHNO-SKELETON
  That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.
• PNEUMOSKELETON
  A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.
• EXOSKELETON
  The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external
• NEUROSKELETON
  The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. Owen.