Word Meanings - SPHENOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.

• WEDGEGAUGEWEDGEGAGE
  A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.
• Crystallographical
  Pertaining to crystallography.
• WEDGEGEAR
  A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves. -- Wedge gearing.
• Crystallographically
  In the manner of crystallography.
• Sphenoidal
  Sphenoid.
• WEDGESHAPED
  Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
• Crystallography
  The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.
• WEDGESHELL
  Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
• Crystallin
  See Gobulin.
• Crystalloid
  Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
• WEDGETAILED
  Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood. Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle (Aquila a
• Crystalline
  Consisting, or made, of crystal.
• Crystallomancy
  Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.
• Wedgebill
  An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
• Crystallite
  A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form

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