Word Meanings - PLACODERMI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.

• Undercraft
  A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors.
• Undersaturated
  Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
• Underdressed
  Not dresses enough.
• Undershrieve
  A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature.
• Undergird
  To blind below; to gird round the bottom.
• Underspore
  To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever.
• Covertly
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• Undergrowth
  That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.
• Understratums
  of Understratum
• Illustratively
  By way of illustration or elucidation.
• Underkind
  An inferior kind.
• Undertide
  Alt. of Undertime
• Pterichthys
  A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.
• Underlying
  Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.
• Underwood
  Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.
• Underact
  To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly.
• Undernom
  of Undernime
• COVERPOINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• Underbrush
  Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
• Underpossessor
  One who possesses or holds anything subject to the superior of another.

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