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.

• 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.
• Orderless
  Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
• 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.
• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Sometimes
  Formerly; sometime.
• 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
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• 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.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• 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.
• Genera
  See Genus.

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