Name Report For First Name SELA:
SELA
First name SELA's origin is African. SELA means "ewe of w. africa unisexual name meaning "savior."". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SELA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of sela.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with SELA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with SELA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming SELA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SELA AS A WHOLE:
selam selamawit selassie gisela marisela selassieeNAMES RHYMING WITH SELA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ela) - Names That Ends with ela:
bela pamela philomela suadela akela lahela leela kimimela angela costela gabriela imanuela ionela izabela mihaela mirela petronela stela viorela fela jela matsimela adela arela aricela ariela awendela carmela chavela chela consuela erela estela estrela fayela geela graciela grizela hannela isabela jabulela kaela lela leonela makela manoela manuela marcela maricela mariela micaela michaela michela mikaela mychaela mykaela neela nyela rafela shaela teela udela adeela marinela lemuela daniela nabeela jameela fadheela samuela yovelaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (la) - Names That Ends with la:
adeola fayola fola hola layla nangila ndila ramla adila cala najla donella alula ludmila pavla svetla laila arabella sybylla akila jamila karola alala anatola eustella idola iola neola onellaNAMES RHYMING WITH SELA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (sel) - Names That Begins with sel:
selby selden seldon sele seleby selena selene seleta selig selik selima selina selk selma selvyn selwin selwine selwynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (se) - Names That Begins with se:
seabert seabrig seabright seabroc seabrook seaburt seadon seafra seafraid seager seaghda sealey seamere seamus sean seana seanachan seanan seanlaoch seanna searbhreathach searlait searlas searle searlus seaton seaver seaward seb sebak sebasten sebastene sebastian sebastiana sebastiano sebastien sebastiene sebastienne sebastyn sebe seber sebert sebestyen sebille sebo secg secgwic sechet seda sedge sedgeley sedgewic sedgewick sedgewik seely seentahna seeton sefton sefu segar segenam seger segulah segunda segundo seif seignour seiji sein seina seireadan sekai sekani sekhet sekou semadar semele semira sen senalda senapus senenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SELA:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'a':
saa saada saadya saba sabana sabina sabiya sabola sabra sabria sabrina sadaka sadhbba sadira safa safia safiya sagira sahara saida saina sakeena sakima sakra sakujna sakura salama salbatora saleema salma saloma salvadora salvatora salwa samantha samara sameeha sameera samira samoanna samuka samvarta sanaa sancha sancia sanda sandhya sandra sanjna sanora sanura sanya sapphira sara sarama sarika sarina sarisha sarita sasa sasha saskia sativola saturnina sauda saumya saura savanna savarna saxona saxonia sayda sbtinka scadwiella scota scotia scowyrhta scylla senona senora senta seorsa serafina seraphina serefina serena serenata serhilda serihilda serilda setanta settarra sha-mia shabaka shada shadha shadia shahana shaibya shainaEnglish Words Rhyming SELA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SELA AS A WHOLE:
| baselard | noun (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. |
| chasselas | noun (n.) A white grape, esteemed for the table. |
| counselable | adjective (a.) Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. |
| adjective (a.) Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. |
| cypsela | noun (n.) A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent. |
| fuselage | noun (n.) An elongated body or frame of an aeroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aeroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called. |
| horselaugh | noun (n.) A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw. |
| rensselaerite | noun (n.) A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles. |
| selachian | noun (n.) One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| selachii | noun (n. pl.) An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha, Selache, and Selachoidei. |
| selachoidei | noun (n. pl.) Same as Selachii. |
| selachostomi | noun (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth. |
| selaginella | noun (n.) A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories. |
| selah | noun (n.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song. |
| tesselar | adjective (a.) Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SELA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ela) - English Words That Ends with ela:
| beteela | noun (n.) An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. |
| chela | noun (n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida. |
| noun (n.) In India, a dependent person occupying a position between that of a servant or slave and a disciple; hence, a disciple or novice. |
| patela | noun (n.) A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli. |
| pathopoela | noun (n.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. |
| pela | noun (n.) See Wax insect, under Wax. |
| philomela | noun (n.) The nightingale; philomel. |
| noun (n.) A genus of birds including the nightingales. |
| rhabdocoela | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine. |
| rhynchocoela | noun (n. pl.) Same as Nemertina. |
| sequela | noun (n.) One who, or that which, follows. |
| noun (n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. | |
| noun (n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion. | |
| noun (n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another. |
| stela | noun (n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc. |
| urodela | noun (n. pl.) An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals. |
| weigela | noun (n.) Alt. of Weigelia |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SELA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (sel) - Words That Begins with sel:
| selch | noun (n.) A seal. |
| selcouth | noun (n.) Rarely known; unusual; strange. |
| seld | adjective (a.) Rare; uncommon; unusual. |
| adverb (adv.) Rarely; seldom. |
| seldom | adjective (a.) Rare; infrequent. |
| seldomness | noun (n.) Rareness. |
| seldseen | adjective (a.) Seldom seen. |
| seldshewn | adjective (a.) Rarely shown or exhibited. |
| select | adjective (a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. |
| verb (v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal. |
| selecting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Select |
| selection | noun (n.) The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. |
| noun (n.) That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. |
| selective | adjective (a.) Selecting; tending to select. |
| selectman | noun (n.) One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. |
| selectness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being select. |
| selector | noun (n.) One who selects. |
| selenate | noun (n.) A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate. |
| selenhydric | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid. |
| selenic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds. |
| selenide | noun (n.) A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide. |
| seleniferous | adjective (a.) Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites. |
| selenious | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds. |
| selenite | noun (n.) A salt of selenious acid. |
| noun (n.) A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses. |
| selenitic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Selenitical |
| selenitical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite. |
| selenium | noun (n.) A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9. |
| seleniuret | noun (n.) A selenide. |
| seleniureted | adjective (a.) Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen. |
| selenecentric | adjective (a.) As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central. |
| selenograph | noun (n.) A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it. |
| selenographer | noun (n.) One skilled in selenography. |
| selenographic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Selenographical |
| selenographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to selenography. |
| selenographist | noun (n.) A selenographer. |
| selenography | noun (n.) The science that treats of the physical features of the moon; -- corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. |
| selenonium | noun (n.) A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium. |
| selenology | noun (n.) That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon. |
| self | noun (n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. |
| noun (n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. | |
| noun (n.) Personification; embodiment. | |
| adjective (a.) Same; particular; very; identical. | |
| adjective (a.) Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored. |
| selfhood | noun (n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality. |
| selfish | adjective (a.) Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. |
| adjective (a.) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. |
| selfishness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. |
| selfism | noun (n.) Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness. |
| selfist | noun (n.) A selfish person. |
| selfless | adjective (a.) Having no regard to self; unselfish. |
| selflessness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being selfless. |
| selfness | noun (n.) Selfishness. |
| selfsame | adjective (a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical. |
| selion | noun (n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows. |
| seljukian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century. |
| seljuckian | noun (n.) A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; (pl.) the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk. |
| sell | noun (n.) Self. |
| noun (n.) A sill. | |
| noun (n.) A cell; a house. | |
| noun (n.) A saddle for a horse. | |
| noun (n.) A throne or lofty seat. | |
| noun (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice selling commodities. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price. |
| selling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sell |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SELA:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'a':
| sabadilla | noun (n.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. |
| sabella | noun (n.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head. |
| saccharilla | noun (n.) A kind of muslin. |
| saccoglossa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Pellibranchiata. |
| sadda | noun (n.) A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of the Zend-Avesta, or sacred books. |
| saga | noun (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time. |
| (pl. ) of Sagum |
| sagitta | noun (n.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow. |
| noun (n.) The keystone of an arch. | |
| noun (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string. | |
| noun (n.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha. |
| saiga | noun (n.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears. |
| saiva | noun (n.) One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration. |
| salamandrina | noun (n.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. |
| salamandroidea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela. |
| salangana | noun (n.) The salagane. |
| salina | adjective (a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea. |
| adjective (a.) Salt works. |
| salisburia | noun (n.) The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia). |
| saliva | noun (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands. |
| salpa | noun (n.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| salsoda | noun (n.) See Sal soda, under Sal. |
| salsola | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort. |
| saltarella | noun (n.) See Saltarello. |
| saltatoria | noun (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. |
| salvia | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage. |
| samara | noun (n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit. |
| samarra | noun (n.) See Simar. |
| sanga | noun (n.) Alt. of Sangu |
| sanguinaria | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family. |
| noun (n.) The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc. |
| sanhita | noun (n.) A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda. |
| sankha | noun (n.) A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell. |
| sankhya | noun (n.) A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness. |
| sapodilla | noun (n.) A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum. |
| sapota | noun (n.) The sapodilla. |
| sappodilla | noun (n.) See Sapodilla. |
| sapucaia | noun (n.) A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. |
| sarcina | noun (n.) A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. |
| sarcocolla | noun (n.) A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. |
| sarcoderma | noun (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments. |
| noun (n.) A sarcocarp. |
| sarcolemma | noun (n.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma. |
| sarcoma | noun (n.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance. |
| sarcophaga | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums. |
| noun (n.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies. |
| sarracenia | noun (n.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant. |
| sarsa | noun (n.) Sarsaparilla. |
| sarsaparilla | noun (n.) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax. |
| noun (n.) The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc. |
| sassarara | noun (n.) A word used to emphasize a statement. |
| sassorolla | noun (n.) The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon. |
| sastra | noun (n.) Same as Shaster. |
| saturnalia | noun (n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence. |
| sauria | noun (n. pl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia. |
| saurobatrachia | noun (n. pl.) The Urodela. |
| sauropoda | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| sauropsida | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds. |
| sauropterygia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Plesiosauria. |
| savanilla | noun (n.) The tarpum. |
| savanna | noun (n.) A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. |
| saxicava | noun (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks. |
| saxifraga | noun (n.) A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage. |
| scaglia | noun (n.) A reddish variety of limestone. |
| scagliola | noun (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished. |
| scala | noun (n.) A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus. |
| noun (n.) A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea. |
| scalaria | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap. |
| scaliola | noun (n.) Same as Scagliola. |
| scampavia | noun (n.) A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century. |
| scandia | noun (n.) A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium. |
| scaphopda | noun (n. pl.) A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha. |
| scapula | noun (n.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade. |
| noun (n.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise. |
| scarlatina | noun (n.) Scarlet fever. |
| scena | noun (n.) A scene in an opera. |
| noun (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. |
| schema | noun (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect. |
| schisma | noun (n.) An interval equal to half a comma. |
| schizonemertea | noun (n. pl.) A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| schizopoda | noun (n. pl.) A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming. |
| scholia | noun (n. pl.) See Scholium. |
| (pl. ) of Scholium |
| sciatica | noun (n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic. |
| scincoidea | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink. |
| scintilla | noun (n.) A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle. |
| sciuromorpha | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others. |
| sclerema | noun (n.) Induration of the cellular tissue. |
| sclerenchyma | noun (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. |
| noun (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals. |
| scleroderma | noun (n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin. |
| sclerodermata | noun (n. pl.) The stony corals; the Madreporaria. |
| scleroma | noun (n.) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis. |
| scolecida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Helminthes. |
| scolecomorpha | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scolecida. |
| scolopendra | noun (n.) A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. |
| noun (n.) A sea fish. |
| scopula | noun (n.) A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web. |
| noun (n.) A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee. |
| scoria | noun (n.) The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross. |
| noun (n.) Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders. |
| scorpiodea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scorpiones. |
| scorpionidea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scorpiones. |
| scotia | noun (n.) A concave molding used especially in classical architecture. |
| noun (n.) Scotland |
| scotoma | noun (n.) Scotomy. |
| scrobicula | noun (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin. |
| scrofula | noun (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption). |
| scrophularia | noun (n.) A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort. |
| scuta | noun (n. pl.) See Scutum. |
| (pl. ) of Scutum |
| scutella | noun (n. pl.) See Scutellum. |
| noun (n.) See Scutellum, n., 2. | |
| (pl. ) of Scutellum |
| scutibranchia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Scutibranchiata. |
| scutibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike. |
| scybala | noun (n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces. |
| scylla | noun (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand. |
| scyllaea | noun (n.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest. |
| scypha | noun (n.) See Scyphus, 2 (b). |
| scyphistoma | noun (n.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian. |
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