Name Report For First Name TAMA:
TAMA
First name TAMA's origin is Native American. TAMA means "thunder". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TAMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tama.(Brown names are of the same origin (Native American) with TAMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TAMA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TAMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TAMA AS A WHOLE:
tamae tamary tamam hietamaki tamah tamanna tamar tamara tamarah tamay tamas ittamarNAMES RHYMING WITH TAMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ama) - Names That Ends with ama:
adama mariama salama lama kalama kama sarama sharama kimama usama arama dreama eskama faoiltiama nehama bama rama nechama anama elishamaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
fatuma halima ifeoma neema esma alima asima huma na'ima numa ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma neoma thelma acima jemima carma ahisma karma padma ruma uma vema gulielma massima roma donoma poloma shima adima juma lema tessema chuma jorma soma adharma algoma alma aluma delma dharma elma ema emma fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma kuwanyauma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nakoma okimma oma paloma purisima salma saloma selima sima suma telma temimaNAMES RHYMING WITH TAMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tam) - Names That Begins with tam:
tamera tami tamika tamir tamirat tamma tammara tammie tammy tamnais tamouz tamra tamryn tamsin tamtunRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Begins with ta:
taavet taaveti taavetti taavi tab taban tabari tabatha tabbart tabbert taber tabetha tabia tabitha tablita tabor tabora taburer tacy tad tadao tadd tadeo tadesuz tadewi tadhg tadita tadleigh tafui tag tagan tage taggart tahbert taher tahir tahirah tahkeome tahki tahlia tahmelapachme tahnee tahra tahu tahurer tai taicligh taidgh taidhg taidhgin taigi tailayag taillefe taillefer taini taipa taishi tait taitasi taite taithleach taiyana taj tajah taji tajo taka takala takara takchawee takeo takhi takis takiyah takoda takouhi tal tala talal talawat talayeh talbert talbot talbott taleNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TAMA:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'a':
taletha talia talisha talitha tallia talora talya talyssa tandra taneisha tanessa tangerina tania tanisha tanya tara taraka tarana tarina tasa tashia tasina tassa tatiana taura taurina tavia tavisha tawia tawnia tawnya taya tayanita tayba taylia tayzia tea teadora tealia teanna teaonia teca tecla tedra teela teetonka tehya teisha teka temira teodora teofila teoma terceira terentia teresa teresina teresita teriana terika terra terza tesia tessa tessia teva thaddea thaddia thadina thalassa thaleia thalia thea thecla theda thekla thenoma thenomia theodora theola theophaneia theophania theophilia theora thera thia thira thirza thoma thomsina thora thressa thrisha thurayya thwayya thyra tia tiahna tianna tiaunaEnglish Words Rhyming TAMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TAMA AS A WHOLE:
| ataman | noun (n.) A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks. |
| catamaran | noun (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations. |
| noun (n.) Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. | |
| noun (n.) A quarrelsome woman; a scold. |
| matamata | noun (n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers. |
| patamar | noun (n.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. |
| tamability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness. |
| tamable | adjective (a.) Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. |
| tamandu | noun (n.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America. |
| tamanoir | noun (n.) The ant-bear. |
| tamarack | noun (n.) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch. |
| noun (n.) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood. |
| tamaric | noun (n.) A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. |
| tamarin | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus. |
| tamarind | noun (n.) A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated. |
| noun (n.) One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink. |
| tamarisk | noun (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna. |
| tintamar | noun (n.) A hideous or confused noise; an uproar. |
| tamale | noun (n.) A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TAMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ama) - English Words That Ends with ama:
| aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
| agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
| amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
| brama | noun (n.) See Brahma. |
| cariama | noun (n.) A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema. |
| cosmorama | noun (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality. |
| cyclorama | noun (n.) A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially. |
| diorama | noun (n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced. |
| noun (n.) A building used for such an exhibition. |
| drama | noun (n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. |
| noun (n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. | |
| noun (n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. |
| georama | noun (n.) A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside. |
| glama | noun (n.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude. |
| hypermyriorama | noun (n.) A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views. |
| kaama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| kama | noun (n.) The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers. |
| noun (n.) Desire; animal passion; |
| kokama | noun (n.) The gemsbok. |
| lama | noun (n.) See Llama. |
| noun (n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism. |
| lecama | noun (n.) The hartbeest. |
| llama | noun (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes. |
| mama | noun (n.) See Mamma. |
| marinorama | noun (n.) A representation of a sea view. |
| mazama | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazame |
| melodrama | noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio". |
| monodrama | noun (n.) Alt. of Monodrame |
| monothalama | noun (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber. |
| myriorama | noun (n.) A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. |
| neorama | noun (n.) A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within. |
| paijama | noun (n.) Pyjama. |
| palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
| panorama | noun (n.) A complete view in every direction. |
| noun (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. | |
| noun (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. |
| panstereorama | noun (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. |
| polyorama | noun (n.) A view of many objects; also, a sort of panorama with dissolving views. |
| pyjama | noun (n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. |
| shama | noun (n.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut. |
| squama | noun (n.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium. |
| trama | noun (n.) The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes. |
| yama | noun (n.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TAMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tam) - Words That Begins with tam:
| tambac | noun (n.) See Tombac. |
| tambour | noun (n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. |
| noun (n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d). | |
| noun (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade. | |
| noun (n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To embroider on a tambour. |
| tambouring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tambour |
| tambourin | noun (n.) A tambourine. |
| noun (n.) An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage. |
| tambourine | noun (n.) A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel. |
| noun (n.) A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous. |
| tambreet | noun (n.) The duck mole. |
| tamburin | noun (n.) See Tambourine. |
| taming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tame |
| tame | adjective (a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. |
| adjective (a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth. | |
| superlative (superl.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird. | |
| superlative (superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. | |
| superlative (superl.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. |
| tameable | adjective (a.) Tamable. |
| tameless | adjective (a.) Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. |
| tameness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tame. |
| tamer | noun (n.) One who tames or subdues. |
| tamias | noun (n.) A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk. |
| tamil | noun (n.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India. |
| noun (n.) The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language. |
| tamilian | noun (a. & n.) Tamil. |
| tamine | noun (n.) Alt. of Taminy |
| taminy | noun (n.) A kind of woolen cloth; tammy. |
| tamis | noun (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth. |
| noun (n.) The cloth itself; tammy. |
| tamkin | noun (n.) A tampion. |
| tammy | noun (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. |
| noun (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis. |
| tamping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tamp |
| noun (n.) The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine. | |
| noun (n.) The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. |
| tampan | noun (n.) A venomous South African tick. |
| tampeon | noun (n.) See Tampion. |
| tamper | noun (n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed. |
| noun (n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron. | |
| verb (v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. | |
| verb (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. |
| tampering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tamper |
| tamperer | noun (n.) One who tampers; one who deals unfairly. |
| tampion | noun (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use. |
| noun (n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe. |
| tampoe | noun (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple. |
| tampon | noun (n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine. |
| verb (v. t.) To plug with a tampon. |
| tampoon | noun (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung. |
| tamul | noun (a. & n.) Tamil. |
| tammuz | noun (n.) A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis. |
| noun (n.) The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July. |
| tamworth | noun (n.) One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They are red, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect or forwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TAMA:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'a':
| tabula | noun (n.) A table; a tablet. |
| noun (n.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. |
| tabulata | noun (n. pl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples. |
| tacamahaca | noun (n.) A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E. tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar. |
| noun (n.) Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera). |
| tachina | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other insects. |
| tachyglossa | noun (n. pl.) A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna. |
| taenia | noun (n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm. |
| noun (n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain. | |
| noun (n.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave. |
| taeniada | noun (n. pl.) Same as Taenioidea. |
| taeniata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example. |
| taenioglossa | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water. |
| taenioidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm. |
| taeniola | noun (n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae. |
| taffeta | noun (n.) Alt. of Taffety |
| tafia | noun (n.) A variety of rum. |
| taglia | noun (n.) A peculiar combination of pulleys. |
| taha | noun (n.) The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor). |
| taira | noun (n.) Same as Tayra. |
| talaria | noun (n. pl.) Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury. |
| talegalla | noun (n.) A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey. |
| talma | noun (n.) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies. |
| noun (n.) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen. |
| talpa | noun (n.) A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole. |
| tana | noun (n.) Same as Banxring. |
| tanghinia | noun (n.) The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal. |
| tanka | noun (n.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. |
| tankia | noun (n.) See Tanka. |
| tanystomata | noun (n. pl.) A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillae. The horseflies and robber flies are examples. |
| tapa | noun (n.) A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa. |
| taphrenchyma | noun (n.) Same as Bothrenchyma. |
| tapioca | noun (n.) A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava. |
| tarantella | noun (n.) A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia. |
| noun (n.) Music suited to such a dance. |
| tarantula | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale. |
| tardigrada | adjective (a.) A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3. |
| adjective (a.) An order of minute aquatic arachnids; -- called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears. |
| tarentula | noun (n.) See Tarantula. |
| tarsia | noun (n.) Alt. of Tarsiatura |
| tarsiatura | noun (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood. |
| tataupa | noun (n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa). |
| tatta | noun (n.) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters. |
| taurocolla | noun (n.) Glue made from a bull's hide. |
| taxeopoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations. |
| tayra | noun (n.) A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet. |
| tazza | noun (n.) An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles. |
| tchawytcha | noun (n.) The quinnat salmon. |
| tea | noun (n.) The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, / Camellia, Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries. |
| noun (n.) A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage. | |
| noun (n.) Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea. | |
| noun (n.) The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take or drink tea. |
| tectibranchia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Tectibranchiata. |
| tectibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples. |
| tegula | noun (n.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum. |
| tellina | noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells. |
| telotrocha | noun (n.) An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia. |
| tempera | noun (n.) A mode or process of painting; distemper. |
| noun (n.) A mode or process of painting; distemper. |
| tenia | noun (n.) See Taenia. |
| tentaculata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles. |
| tentaculifera | noun (n. pl.) Same as Suctoria, 1. |
| tephrosia | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name. |
| tequila | noun (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico. |
| teratoma | noun (n.) A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle. |
| terebra | noun (n.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell. |
| noun (n.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect. |
| terebrantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies. |
| terebratula | noun (n.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell. |
| terma | noun (n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. |
| terminalia | noun (n. pl.) A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries. |
| terra | noun (n.) The earth; earth. |
| tessellata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates. |
| tessera | noun (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. |
| testa | noun (n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals. |
| noun (n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm. |
| testacea | noun (n. pl.) Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish. |
| testudinata | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates. |
| tethyodea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea. |
| tetrabranchiata | noun (n. pl.) An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc. |
| tetracoralla | noun (n. pl.) Same as Rugosa. |
| tetractinellida | noun (n. pl.) A division of Spongiae in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinae. |
| tetradecapoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Arthrostraca. |
| tetradrachma | noun (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. |
| tetradynamia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others. |
| tetragynia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having four styles. |
| tetramera | noun (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary. |
| tetrandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens. |
| tetraneumona | noun (n. pl.) A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale. |
| thalamophora | noun (n. pl.) Same as Foraminifera. |
| thalia | noun (n.) That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy. |
| noun (n.) One of the three Graces. | |
| noun (n.) One of the Nereids. |
| thaliacea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum. |
| thea | noun (n.) A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant. |
| theca | noun (n.) A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord. |
| noun (n.) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids. | |
| noun (n.) The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral. | |
| noun (n.) The wall forming a calicle of a coral. |
| thecata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Thecophora. |
| thecla | noun (n.) Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin. |
| thecodontia | noun (n. pl.) A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets. |
| thecophora | noun (n. pl.) A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecae and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea. |
| thecosomata | noun (n. pl.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda. |
| theobroma | noun (n.) A genus of small trees. See Cacao. |
| theorica | noun (n. pl.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund. |
| theriaca | noun (n.) An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle. |
| noun (n.) Treacle; molasses. |
| theriodonta | noun (n. pl.) Same as Theriodontia. |
| theriodontia | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals. Called also Theromorpha. |
| theromorpha | noun (n. pl.) See Theriodonta. |
| theropoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies. |
| theta | noun (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. |
| thoracica | noun (n. pl.) A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples. |
| thoracostraca | adjective (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species. |
| thoria | noun (n.) A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina. |
| thuja | noun (n.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. |
| thulia | noun (n.) Oxide of thulium. |
| thuya | noun (n.) Same as Thuja. |
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