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  • English Word Dicyemata Definition An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.
  • English Word Dicyemid Definition Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.
  • English Word Dicyemid Definition One of the Dicyemata.
  • English Word Dicynodont Definition One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.
  • English Word Did Definition imp. of Do.
  • English Word Didactic Definition Alt. of Didactical
  • English Word Didactic Definition A treatise on teaching or education.
  • English Word Didactical Definition Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.
  • English Word Didactically Definition In a didactic manner.
  • English Word Didacticism Definition The didactic method or system.
  • English Word Didacticity Definition Aptitude for teaching.
  • English Word Didactics Definition The art or science of teaching.
  • English Word Didactyl Definition An animal having only two digits.
  • English Word Didactylous Definition Having only two digits; two-toed.
  • English Word Didal Definition A kind of triangular spade.
  • English Word Didapper Definition See Dabchick.
  • English Word Didascalar Definition Didascalic.
  • English Word Didascalic Definition Didactic; preceptive.
  • English Word Diddle Definition To totter, as a child in walking.
  • English Word Diddle Definition To cheat or overreach.
  • English Word Diddler Definition A cheat.
  • English Word Didelphia Definition The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.
  • English Word Didelphian Definition Of or relating to the Didelphia.
  • English Word Didelphian Definition One of the Didelphia.
  • English Word Didelphic Definition Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.
  • English Word Didelphid Definition Same as Didelphic.
  • English Word Didelphid Definition A marsupial animal.
  • English Word Didelphous Definition Didelphic.
  • English Word Didelphous Definition Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Didelphyc Definition Same as Didelphic.