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Word Meanings - SPHAEROSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.

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  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • FOUNDER
    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • FOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Find.
  • FOUNDATIONER
    One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
  • FOUNDEROUS
    Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
  • FOUNDRESS
    A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
  • FOUNDERY
    See FOUNDRY
  • FOUNDLING
    A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
  • TETRASPORE
    A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.
  • NONSEXUAL
    Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
  • FOUNDING
    The art of smelting and casting metals.
  • FOUNDERSHAFT
    The first shaft sunk. Raymond.
  • FOUNDRY
    1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. 2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.
  • FOUNDATIONLESS
    Having no foundation.
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • PROFOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
  • PROFOUNDLY
    In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
  • CONFOUNDEDLY
    Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
  • REFOUND
    1. To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton. 2. To found or establish again; to re
  • CHEST FOUNDER
    A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
  • REFOUNDER
    One who refounds.
  • DUMFOUNDER
    To dumfound; to confound.
  • UNCONFOUNDED
    Not confounded. Bp. Warburton.
  • PROFOUND
    1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton. 2. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound

 

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