Word Meanings - BALLOONRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.

• Balloon fish
  A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• Aeronautics
  The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning.
• Ballooning spider
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
• ASCENDANCYASCENDANCE
  Same as Ascendency.
• BALLOONFISH
  A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• BALLOONINGSPIDER
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

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