Word Meanings - SIPHONOSTOMATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood.

• Blood money
  Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
• Bloodwood
  A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
• Including
  of Include
• Mouther
  One who mouths; an affected speaker.
• Parasitical
  Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.
• MOUTHFOOTED
  Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
• Adaptness
  Adaptedness.
• Bloodroot
  A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstoc
• Bloodwort
  A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyein
• Include
  To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
• Mouth-footed
  Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
• Parasiticide
  Anything used to destroy parasites.
• MOUTHMADE
  Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.
• Adaptorial
  Adaptive.
• Bloodshed
  The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
• Includible
  Capable of being included.
• Mouthfuls
  of Mouthful
• Species
  Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

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