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Word Meanings - SUPRAMAXILLARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.

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  • UPPERMOST
    Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
  • LOWERMOST
    Lowest.
  • NERVELESSNESS
    The state of being nerveless.
  • SITUATE
    To place. Landor.
  • LOWERY
    Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • NERVELESS
    1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
  • SUPRAMAXILLARY
    Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
  • SITUATE; SITUATED
    1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
  • LOWER
    Compar. of Low, a.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • NERVED
    Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray. (more info) 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
  • UPPER
    Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
  • LOWER-CASE
    Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
  • LOWERING
    Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
  • NERVE-SHAKEN
    Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
  • NERVE
    One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each
  • SITUATION
    1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
  • LOWERINGLY
    In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • GLOBEFLOWER
    A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
  • BALL-FLOWER
    An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

 

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