Word Meanings - BRANCHIOPODA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.
- Orderless
Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule. - WATERTABBY
A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1. - Water gavel
A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water. - Water starwort
See under Starwort. - Callosum
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - WATERELEPHANT
The hippopotamus. [R.] - Sometimes
Formerly; sometime. - WATERTUTUYERE
A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast. - Waterie
The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds. - Water tube
One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst. - Foundered
of Founder - WATERGILDING
The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding. - Watered
of Water - Water level
The level formed by the surface of still water. - Water witch
The dabchick. - Freshly
In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. - WATERLAID
Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope. - Water bed
A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients. - Water mill
A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill. - WATERBACK
See under 1st Back.
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