Word Meanings - ZYGOPHYTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeæ), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oöphyte.

Related words: (words related to ZYGOPHYTE)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GRANDNESS
  Grandeur. Wollaston.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• OOPHYTE; OOEPHYTE
  Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• EMPHYTEUTICARY
  One who holds lands by emphyteusis.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• MICROPHYTE
  A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• SPERMOPHYTE
  Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.
• AEROPHYTE
  A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.