Skip to main content
Search Section
Skip alphabetical navigation menu.

Browse Alphabetically

  • English Word Vertebrated Definition Having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms ophiurans.
  • English Word Vertebrated Definition Of or pertaining to the Vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.
  • English Word Vertebre Definition A vertebra.
  • English Word Vertebro- Definition A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebrae, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.
  • English Word Vertebro-iliac Definition Iliolumbar.
  • English Word Vertex Definition A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
  • English Word Vertex Definition The top, or crown, of the head.
  • English Word Vertex Definition The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.
  • English Word Vertex Definition The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
  • English Word Vertexes Definition of Vertex
  • English Word Vertical Definition Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
  • English Word Vertical Definition Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
  • English Word Vertical Definition Vertical position; zenith.
  • English Word Vertical Definition A vertical line, plane, or circle.
  • English Word Verticality Definition The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness.
  • English Word Vertically Definition In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.
  • English Word Verticalness Definition Quality or state of being vertical.
  • English Word Vertices Definition of Vertex
  • English Word Verticil Definition A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
  • English Word Verticillaster Definition A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.
  • English Word Verticillate Definition Alt. of Verticillated
  • English Word Verticillated Definition Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
  • English Word Verticillus Definition A whorl; a verticil.
  • English Word Verticity Definition The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
  • English Word Verticle Definition An axis; hinge; a turning point.
  • English Word Vertiginate Definition Turned round; giddy.
  • English Word Vertigines Definition of Vertigo
  • English Word Vertiginous Definition Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.
  • English Word Vertiginous Definition Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
  • English Word Vertigo Definition Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.