Word Meanings - TORULAFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.

Related words: (words related to TORULAFORM)

• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• STRUVITE
  A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• STRATEGIC; STRATEGICAL
  Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line , a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point , any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• STRATUM
  A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively. 2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• STREPTOTHRIX
  A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• TOP-CHAIN
  A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• PEDESTRIAN
  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• SHEET CHAIN
  A chain sheet cable.
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• REGISTRANT
  One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.