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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,314 words match “TOM”

STOMACHLESS a. 2 definitions

Being without a stomach.

Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Obs.] With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.

Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.

One of the Stomapoda.

laws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.

STOMATIC a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to a stoma; of the nature of a stoma.

STOMATIFEROUS a.

Having or producing stomata.

Inflammation of the mouth.

A division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.

STOMATODAEUM n.

Same as Stomodæum.

STOMATODE a. 2 definitions

One of the Stomatoda.

STOMATOGASTRIC a.

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

Scientific study or knowledge of the mouth.

STOMATOPLASTIC a.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

STOMATOPLASTY n.

Plastic surgery of the mouth.

One of the Stomatopoda.

Same as Stomapoda.

STOMATOPODOUS a.

Of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda.

STOMATOSCOPE n.

An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.