Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
gas-burner |
noun |
The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices. |
gasconaded |
imp. & past participle |
of Gasconade |
gasconader |
noun |
A great boaster; a blusterer. |
gasometric |
adjective |
Alt. of Gasometrical |
gasteropod |
noun |
Same as Gastropod. |
gastralgia |
noun |
Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders. |
gastrodisc |
noun |
That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst. |
gastrolith |
noun |
See Crab’s eyes, under Crab. |
gastrology |
noun |
The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach. |
gastromyth |
noun |
One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist. |
gastronome |
noun |
Alt. of Gastronomer |
gastronomy |
noun |
The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer. |
gastropoda |
noun pl. |
One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. |
gastrotomy |
noun |
A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach. |
gastrurous |
adjective |
Pertaining to the Gastrura. |