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Artichoke
noun · 78% connection
The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Brigandine
noun · 78% connection
A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to line…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Cataphracted
adjective · 78% connection
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Cycloidei
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Exfoliate
verb · 78% connection
To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Fish
noun · 78% connection
An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Ganoidei
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Imbricated
adjective · 78% connection
Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Lamella
noun · 78% connection
a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Lamellated
adjective · 78% connection
Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Lamelliferous
adjective · 78% connection
Bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Lamina
noun · 78% connection
A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Laminable
adjective · 78% connection
Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Laminal
adjective · 78% connection
In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Laminate
verb · 78% connection
To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Laminating
adjective · 78% connection
Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
Lead
noun · 78% connection
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, plates, scales.
