"Valvate" is a word in ENGLISH
Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or
opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.
Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the
sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in
vernation.
Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of
capsules and some anthers.
People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.
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The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a …
Read the complete definitionA kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air …
Read the complete definitionA genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is …
Read the complete definitionbarbula n valve in a pipe or tire.
Read the complete definitionAn instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws …
Read the complete definitionA mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the …
Read the complete definitionHaving two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
Read the complete definitionA pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
Read the complete definitionHaving two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
Read the complete definitionHaving two valves.
Read the complete definitionSee Snifting valve.
Read the complete definitionIn pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
Read the complete definitionA chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
Read the complete definitionThe valved piston of a lifting pump.
Read the complete definitionA tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the …
Read the complete definitionA skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
Read the complete definitionAnything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
Read the complete definitionA faucet or valve.
Read the complete definitionOne of the shells or valves of a cockle.
Read the complete definitionAn instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the …
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