Word Meanings - PUDDINGFISHPUDDINGWIFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.

• Coloradoite
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• Iridioscope
  A kind of ophthalmoscope.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Callidity
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Colorate
  Colored.
• Iridious
  Of or pertaining to iridium; -- applied specifically to compounds in which iridium has a low valence.
• COLORADOBEETLE
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Pot
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Coloration
  The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
• Labroid
  Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples.
• COLORADOGROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Bermuda grass
  A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Colorature
  Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
• COLORBLIND
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.

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