Word Meanings - SURANGULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds. -- n.

Related words: (words related to SURANGULAR)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• SUPRAOCCIPITAL
  Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone. -- n.
• SUPRA-AXILLARY
  Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.
• SUPRACILIARY
  Superciliary.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• SUPRA-OESOPHAGAL
  See SUPRA-ESOPHAGAL
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
• SUPRAPEDAL
  Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.
• SUPRAPROTEST
  An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• SUPRAGLOTIC
  Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.
• SUPRASPINATE; SUPRASPINOUS
  Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.
• SUPRAVISOR
  A supervisor.
• SUPRAVAGINAL
  Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• SUPRATROCHLEAR
  Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
• 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.
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• 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
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• 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.
• INANGULAR
  Not angular.