Skip to main content
Search Section
Skip alphabetical navigation menu.

Browse Alphabetically

  • English Word Octodecimo Definition A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18¡, and called eighteenmo.
  • English Word Octodecimos Definition of Octodecimo
  • English Word Octodentate Definition Having eight teeth.
  • English Word Octodont Definition Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species.
  • English Word Octoedrical Definition See Octahedral.
  • English Word Octofid Definition Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.
  • English Word Octogamy Definition A marrying eight times.
  • English Word Octogenarian Definition A person eighty years, or more, of age.
  • English Word Octogenary Definition Of eighty years of age.
  • English Word Octogild Definition A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.
  • English Word Octogonal Definition See Octagonal.
  • English Word Octogynia Definition A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils.
  • English Word Octogynian Definition Alt. of Octogynous
  • English Word Octogynous Definition Having eight pistils; octagynous.
  • English Word Octoic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, octane; -- used specifically, to designate any one of a group of acids, the most important of which is called caprylic acid.
  • English Word Octolocular Definition Having eight cells for seeds.
  • English Word Octonaphthene Definition A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.
  • English Word Octonary Definition Of or pertaining to the number eight.
  • English Word Octonocular Definition Having eight eyes.
  • English Word Octopede Definition An animal having eight feet, as a spider.
  • English Word Octopetalous Definition Having eight petals or flower leaves.
  • English Word Octopod Definition One of the Octocerata.
  • English Word Octopoda Definition Same as Octocerata.
  • English Word Octopoda Definition Same as Arachnida.
  • English Word Octopodia Definition Same as Octocerata.
  • English Word Octopus Definition A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,
  • English Word Octoradiated Definition Having eight rays.
  • English Word Octoroon Definition The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
  • English Word Octospermous Definition Containing eight seeds.
  • English Word Octostichous Definition In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.