Word Meanings - SPRINGTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura.
- 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. - Springald
Alt. of Springall - Undergrowth
That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees. - Understratums
of Understratum - Sprinkled
of Sprinkle - Underkind
An inferior kind. - Undertide
Alt. of Undertime - 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. - Elasticity
The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; th - Underact
To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly. - Undernom
of Undernime - Whichsoever
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - Ordered
of Order
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