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Word Meanings - UROCHORD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.

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  • CENTRALLY
    In a central manner or situation.
  • ADULTERATION
    1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
  • ADULTERY
    The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman
  • ADULTER
    To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson.
  • ADULTERIZE
    To commit adultery. Milton.
  • ADULTEROUS
    1. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden. 2. Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." Smollett.
  • CENTRAL; CENTRALE
    The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
  • ADULT
    Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
  • CENTRALITY
    The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.
  • CENTRALIZE
    To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. centralize the power of government. Bancroft.
  • CENTRAL
    Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force , a force acting upon a body towards or
  • CENTRALIZATION
    The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.
  • CERTAINTY
    Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
  • ADULTERER
    A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2. (more info) 1. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
  • LARVAL
    Of or pertaining to a larva.
  • CERTAINNESS
    Certainty.
  • ADULTERANT
    That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
  • CERTAIN
    1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
  • ADULTERESS
    A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4. (more info) 1. A woman who commits adultery.
  • ADULTNESS
    The state of being adult.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • NEURO-CENTRAL
    Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture. Huxley.
  • UNICENTRAL
    Having a single center of growth. Unicentral development, that form of development which takes place primarily around a single central point, as in the lowest of unicellular organisms.
  • UNCERTAINLY
    In an uncertain manner.

 

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