GPage 30
- English Word Gastrotricha Definition A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.
- English Word Gastrotrocha Definition A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
- English Word Gastrovascular Definition Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.
- English Word Gastrula Definition An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.
- English Word Gastrula Definition Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- English Word Gastrulae Definition of Gastrula
- English Word Gastrulation Definition The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.
- English Word Gastrura Definition See Stomatopoda.
- English Word Gastrurous Definition Pertaining to the Gastrura.
- English Word Gat Definition imp. of Get.
- English Word Gat Definition of Get
- English Word Gat-toothed Definition Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
- English Word Gate Definition A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
- English Word Gate Definition An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
- English Word Gate Definition A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
- English Word Gate Definition The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
- English Word Gate Definition In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- English Word Gate Definition The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
- English Word Gate Definition The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
- English Word Gate Definition To supply with a gate.
- English Word Gate Definition To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
- English Word Gate Definition A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
- English Word Gate Definition Manner; gait.
- English Word Gated Definition Having gates.
- English Word Gatehouse Definition A house connected or associated with a gate.
- English Word Gateless Definition Having no gate.
- English Word Gateman Definition A gate keeper; a gate tender.
- English Word Gatepost Definition A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.
- English Word Gatepost Definition A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.
- English Word Gateway Definition A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.