Word Meanings - BRAZILNUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.

• Siderostat
  An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
• Three-cornered
  Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• Three-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• SHELLLESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• THREEPARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• Eighteen
  Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• Shellfish
  Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
• Shell-less
  Having no shell.
• Sideral
  Relating to the stars.
• Sideroxylon
  A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• SIDECHAINTHEORY
  A theory proposed by Ehrlich as a chemical explanation of immunity phenomena. In brief outline it is as follows: Animal cells and bacteria are complex aggregations of molecules, which are themselves complex. Complex molecules react with one another thro
• THREEPILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• Eighteenmo
  See Octodecimo.
• Shellproof
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• Siderated
  Planet-struck; blasted.
• Sidesaddle
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
• Three-flowered
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

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