Word Meanings - JOINTWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.

• GREATGRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• Great-granddaughter
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• Jointless
  Without a joint; rigid; stiff.
• Smallage
  A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• GREATHEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• Damageable
  Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
• Foundered
  of Founder
• Great-grandfather
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• Jointly
  In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately.
• Smallclothes
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GREATWHITEWAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• Damage feasant
  Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
• Foundering
  of Founder

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