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  • English Word Paraphrase Definition To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.
  • English Word Paraphrase Definition To make a paraphrase.
  • English Word Paraphrased Definition of Paraphrase
  • English Word Paraphraser Definition One who paraphrases.
  • English Word Paraphrasian Definition A paraphraser.
  • English Word Paraphrasing Definition of Paraphrase
  • English Word Paraphrast Definition A paraphraser.
  • English Word Paraphrastic Definition Alt. of Paraphrastical
  • English Word Paraphrastical Definition Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free.
  • English Word Paraphyses Definition of Paraphysis
  • English Word Paraphysis Definition A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
  • English Word Paraplegia Definition Alt. of Paraplegy
  • English Word Paraplegy Definition Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord.
  • English Word Parapleura Definition A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
  • English Word Parapleurae Definition of Parapleura
  • English Word Parapodia Definition of Parapodium
  • English Word Parapodium Definition One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.
  • English Word Parapophyses Definition of Parapophysis
  • English Word Parapophysis Definition The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
  • English Word Paraptera Definition of Parapterum
  • English Word Parapterum Definition A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.
  • English Word Paraquet Definition Alt. of Paraquito
  • English Word Paraquito Definition See Parrakeet.
  • English Word Parasang Definition A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.
  • English Word Parascenia Definition of Parascenium
  • English Word Parascenium Definition One of two apartments adjoining the stage, probably used as robing rooms.
  • English Word Parasceve Definition Among the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath.
  • English Word Parasceve Definition A preparation.
  • English Word Paraschematic Definition Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc.
  • English Word Paraselenae Definition of Paraselene