Word Meanings - VEGETO-ANIMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.

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• 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.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• ALBUMENIZE
  To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• ALBUMEN
  Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc. (more
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as