Word Meanings - THORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

• Sharpening
  of Sharpen
• Spinebill
  Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.
• Transformative
  Having power, or a tendency, to transform.
• SPINELSPINELLE
  A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chrom
• Branchiopod
  One of the Branchiopoda.
• Point d'appui
  See under Appui.
• Point-device
  Alt. of Point-devise
• Transformer
  One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
• SPINESCENCE
  The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
• Branchiopoda
  An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also cal
• Point-devise
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.
• Spine-finned
  Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
• Transformism
  The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
• SPINETAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. (Zoöl.) See Spinetail (a).
• Branches
  of Branch
• Branchiostegal
  Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.

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