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  • English Word Teleosaur Definition Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.
  • English Word Teleosaurus Definition A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
  • English Word Teleost Definition One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
  • English Word Teleostean Definition Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
  • English Word Teleostean Definition A teleostean fish.
  • English Word Teleostei Definition A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
  • English Word Teleostomi Definition An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
  • English Word Teleozoic Definition Having tissued composed of cells.
  • English Word Teleozoon Definition A metazoan.
  • English Word Telepathy Definition The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
  • English Word Telepheme Definition A message by a telephone.
  • English Word Telephone Definition An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
  • English Word Telephone Definition To convey or announce by telephone.
  • English Word Telephonic Definition Conveying sound to a great distance.
  • English Word Telephonic Definition Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.
  • English Word Telephonically Definition By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.
  • English Word Telephony Definition The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
  • English Word Telepolariscope Definition A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope.
  • English Word Telerythin Definition A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.
  • English Word Telescope Definition An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
  • English Word Telescope Definition To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
  • English Word Telescope Definition To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
  • English Word Telescoped Definition of Telescope
  • English Word Telescopic Definition Alt. of Telescopical
  • English Word Telescopical Definition Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.
  • English Word Telescopical Definition Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars.
  • English Word Telescopical Definition Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic vision.
  • English Word Telescopical Definition Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.
  • English Word Telescopically Definition In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.
  • English Word Telescoping Definition of Telescope