Word Meanings - BELLOWSFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Distinguishment
  Observation of difference; distinction.
• Trumpetwood
  A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• European
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
• Tubular
  Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Europeanize
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
• Tubularia
  A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.
• Bellows fish
  A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Tubulariae
  See Tubularida.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

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