Word Meanings - SOMATOPLEURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

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• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• LAMELLICORNIA
  A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• LAMELLA
  a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.
• LAMELLIBRANCH
  One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DEVELOP
  To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value. (more info) voleper, to envelop, perh. from L. volup agreeably, delightfully, and hence orig., to make agreeable
• VERTEBRATE
  One of the Vertebrata.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIA; LAMELLIBRANCHIATA
  A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc. Note: They usually have two flat, lamelliform gills on each side of the body. They have an imperfectly developed head, concealed within the
• NOTOCHORD
  An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• OUTERMOST
  Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
• AMNION
  A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
• LAMELLIFORM
  Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.
• LAMELLATE; LAMELLATED
  Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennæ.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• PLOUTER
  To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
• TOUTER
  One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• SOUTERLY
  Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
• BIPARIETAL
  Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.