Word Meanings - MARSUPIALIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

• Belladonna
  An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largel
• Beautied
  Beautiful; embellished.
• Bevel gear
  A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
• Bendy
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
• Bedrench
  To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
• Differentiae
  of Differentia
• Berdash
  A kind of neckcloth.
• Beggared
  of Beggar
• BECHUANAS
  A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.
• Besotted
  of Besot
• Beaches
  of Beach
• Bestirring
  of Bestir
• Bellicose
  Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
• Bebloody
  To make bloody; to stain with blood.
• Bewake
  To keep watch over; to keep awake.
• Benefactor
  One who confers a benefit or benefits.
• Bedstaff
  "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."
• Female rhymes
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.
• Bergomask
  A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
• Begun
  of Begin

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