Name Report For First Name UMA:
UMA
First name UMA's origin is Indian. UMA means "bright". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with UMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of uma.(Brown names are of the same origin (Indian) with UMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with UMA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming UMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES UMA AS A WHOLE:
fatuma huma numa sumayyah anumati charumati indumati kumari ruma chumani shuman juma nkrumah gumaa humam jumah numair umar umarah umayr chuma tumaini seumas eumaeus thaumas aluma cumania kaleikaumaka kuwanyauma suma umairoh humayd sumarville truman uzumati wacuman yuma umair nkruma sumaiya jumanah umayma beaumainsNAMES RHYMING WITH UMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama halima ifeoma mariama neema salama esma alima asima lama na'ima ulima mukarramma rehema selma thema jurma aselma erma cyma desma neoma thelma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma sarama sharama vema gulielma massima roma donoma kimama poloma shima adima lema tessema usama jorma soma adharma algoma alma arama delma dharma dreama elma ema emma eskama faoiltiama fatima fidelma hilma jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nakoma nehama okimma oma paloma purisima salma saloma selima sima tama telma temima velma wilma winema yarima zelma bama blathma cha'tima sakima thoma yarema amma baseema ramaNAMES RHYMING WITH UMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (um) - Names That Begins with um:
umi ummNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH UMA:
First Names which starts with 'u' and ends with 'a':
ubaida uchenna uda udela ufa ula uldwyna ulicia ulka ulla ulrica una unika upala urania urenna urika ursa ursula ursulina usha usoa utaEnglish Words Rhyming UMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES UMA AS A WHOLE:
acustumaunce | noun (n.) See Accustomance. |
amphiuma | noun (n.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. |
antistrumatic | noun (n.) A medicine for scrofula. |
adjective (a.) Antistrumous. |
assumable | adjective (a.) That may be assumed. |
apneumatic | adjective (a.) Devoid of air; free from air; as, an apneumatic lung; also, effected by or with exclusion of air; as, an apneumatic operation. |
autopneumatic | adjective (a.) Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air. |
brumaire | noun (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire. |
brumal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to winter. |
cauma | noun (n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever. |
circumambage | noun (n.) A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. |
circumambiency | noun (n.) The act of surrounding or encompassing. |
circumambient | adjective (a.) Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. |
consumable | adjective (a.) Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. |
contumacious | adjective (a.) Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. |
adjective (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. |
contumacy | noun (n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. |
noun (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned. |
coumaric | adjective (a.) Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana. |
coumarin | noun (n.) The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially. |
cumacea | noun (n. pl.) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size. |
curcuma | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). |
custumary | adjective (a.) See Customary. |
coumarou | noun (n.) The tree (Dipteryx odorata) which bears the tonka bean; also, the bean itself. |
decuman | adjective (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. |
deplumate | adjective (a.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed. |
deplumation | noun (n.) The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. |
noun (n.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. |
despumating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despumate |
despumation | noun (n.) The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification. |
dumal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly. |
effumability | noun (n.) The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. |
empyreuma | noun (n.) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels. |
empyreumatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Empyreumatical |
empyreumatical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor. |
encauma | noun (n.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. |
exhumated | adjective (a.) Disinterred. |
exhumation | noun (n.) The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body. |
filoplumaceous | adjective (a.) Having the structure of a filoplume. |
foumart | adjective (a.) The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. |
fumacious | adjective (a.) Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco. |
fumage | noun (n.) Hearth money. |
fumarate | noun (n.) A salt of fumaric acid. |
fumaric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). |
fumarine | noun (n.) An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance. |
fumarole | noun (n.) A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue. |
fumatory | noun (n.) See Fumitory. |
noun (n.) A place for subjecting things to smoke or vapor. | |
adjective (a.) Pert. to, or concerned with, smoking. |
fumatorium | noun (n.) An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San Jose scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor. |
gastropneumatic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes. |
glumaceous | adjective (a.) Having glumes; consisting of glumes. |
glumal | adjective (a.) Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume. |
hanuman | noun (n.) See Hoonoomaun. |
human | noun (n.) A human being. |
adjective (a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH UMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - English Words That Ends with ma:
aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
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. |
alma | noun (n.) Alt. of Almah |
amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
amma | noun (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother. |
analemma | noun (n.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon. |
noun (n.) An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems. | |
noun (n.) A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe. |
anathema | noun (n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. |
noun (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. | |
noun (n.) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. |
angienchyma | noun (n.) Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels. |
angioma | noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels. |
noun (n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood or lymph vessels. |
anhima | noun (n.) A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi. |
antepenultima | noun (n.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable. |
arapaima | noun (n.) A large fresh-water food fish of South America. |
aroma | noun (n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. |
noun (n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius. |
asthma | noun (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration. |
atheroma | noun (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter. |
noun (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries. |
adenoma | noun (n.) A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. |
adipoma | noun (n.) A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. |
aerenchyma | noun (n.) A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces. |
bema | noun (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. |
noun (n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel. | |
noun (n.) Erroneously: A pulpit. |
blastema | noun (n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows. |
bothrenchyma | noun (n.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood. |
brahma | noun (n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. |
noun (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra. |
brama | noun (n.) See Brahma. |
branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
bregma | noun (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull. |
broma | noun (n.) Aliment; food. |
noun (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. |
carcinoma | noun (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. |
cariama | noun (n.) A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema. |
ceroma | noun (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans. |
noun (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves. | |
noun (n.) The cere of birds. |
chacma | noun (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.] |
chiasma | noun (n.) A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves. |
chiloma | noun (n.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel. |
chilostoma | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Chilostomata |
chloasma | noun (n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots. |
chondroma | noun (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth. |
cima | noun (n.) A kind of molding. See Cyma. |
coenenchyma | noun (n.) The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral. |
collenchyma | noun (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated. |
coma | noun (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus. |
noun (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. | |
noun (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. |
comma | noun (n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed. |
noun (n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. |
condyloma | noun (n.) Alt. of Condylome |
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. |
croma | noun (n.) A quaver. |
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. |
cyclostoma | noun (n. pl.) A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures. |
cyma | noun (n.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form. |
noun (n.) A cyme. See Cyme. |
cytoblastema | noun (n.) See Protoplasm. |
coloboma | noun (n.) A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft. |
derma | noun (n.) See Dermis. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH UMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (um) - Words That Begins with um:
umbel | noun (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule. |
umbellar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel. |
umbellate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Umbellated |
umbellated | adjective (a.) Bearing umbels; pertaining to an umbel; umbel-like; as, umbellate plants or flowers. |
umbellet | noun (n.) A small or partial umbel; an umbellule. |
umbellic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid. |
umbellifer | noun (n.) A plant producing an umbel or umbels. |
umbelliferone | noun (n.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin. |
umbelliferous | adjective (a.) Producing umbels. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferae) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples. |
umbellularia | noun (n.) A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base. |
umbellule | noun (n.) An umbellet. |
umber | noun (n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below. |
noun (n.) An umbrere. | |
noun (n.) See Grayling, 1. | |
noun (n.) An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky. | |
verb (v. t.) To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face. |
umbery | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold. |
umbilic | noun (n.) The navel; the center. |
noun (n.) An umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5 (b). | |
adjective (a.) See Umbilical, 1. |
umbilical | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic. |
noun (n.) Pertaining to the center; central. |
umbilicate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Umbilicated |
umbilicated | adjective (a.) Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle. |
adjective (a.) Supported by a stalk at the central point. |
umbilication | noun (n.) A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated. |
umbilicus | noun (n.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel. |
noun (n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled. | |
noun (n.) The hilum. | |
noun (n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells. | |
noun (n.) Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather. | |
noun (n.) One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve. | |
noun (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic. |
umbles | noun (n. pl.) The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general. |
umbo | noun (n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike. |
noun (n.) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | |
noun (n.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. |
umbonate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Umbonated |
umbonated | adjective (a.) Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance, like a boss. |
umbra | noun (n.) The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra. |
noun (n.) The central dark portion, or nucleus, of a sun spot. | |
noun (n.) The fainter part of a sun spot; -- now more commonly called penumbra. | |
noun (n.) Any one of several species of sciaenoid food fishes of the genus Umbrina, especially the Mediterranean species (U. cirrhosa), which is highly esteemed as a market fish; -- called also ombre, and umbrine. |
umbraculiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing something like an open umbrella. |
umbraculiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped. |
umbrage | noun (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage. |
noun (n.) Shadowy resemblance; shadow. | |
noun (n.) The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment. |
umbrageous | adjective (a.) Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. |
adjective (a.) Not easily perceived, as if from being darkened or shaded; obscure. | |
adjective (a.) Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious. |
umbratic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Umbratical |
umbratical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired. |
umbratile | adjective (a.) Umbratic. |
umbratious | adjective (a.) Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage. |
umbre | noun (n.) See Umber. |
umbrel | noun (n.) An umbrella. |
umbrella | noun (n.) A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. |
noun (n.) The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish. | |
noun (n.) Any marine tectibranchiate gastropod of the genus Umbrella, having an umbrella-shaped shell; -- called also umbrella shell. |
umbrere | noun (n.) Alt. of Umbriere |
umbriere | noun (n.) In ancient armor, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a face guard was sometimes attached. This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver. Called also umber, and umbril. |
umbrette | noun (n.) See Umber, 4. |
umbriferous | adjective (a.) Casting or making a shade; umbrageous. |
umbril | noun (n.) A umbrere. |
umbrine | noun (n.) See Umbra, 2. |
umbrose | adjective (a.) Shady; umbrageous. |
umbrosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being umbrose; shadiness. |
umhofo | noun (n.) An African two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus, / Rhinoceros, simus); -- called also chukuru, and white rhinoceros. |
umlaut | noun (n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed. |
umlauted | adjective (a.) Having the umlaut; as, umlauted vowels. |
umpirage | noun (n.) The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide. |
noun (n.) The act of umpiring; arbitrament. |
umpire | noun (n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed. |
noun (n.) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. | |
verb (v. t.) To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute. | |
verb (v. t.) To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as umpire or arbitrator. |
umpiring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Umpire |
umpireship | noun (n.) Umpirage; arbitrament. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH UMA:
English Words which starts with 'u' and ends with 'a':
ulema | noun (n.) A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice. |
noun (n.) A college or body composed of the hierarchy (the imams, muftis, and cadis). That of Turkey alone now has political power; its head is the sheik ul Islam. |
ulna | noun (n.) The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius. |
noun (n.) An ell; also, a yard. |
ulonata | noun (n. pl.) A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera. |
ultima | noun (n.) The last syllable of a word. |
adjective (a.) Most remote; furthest; final; last. |
ultra | noun (n.) One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical. |
adjective (a.) Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures. |
ulula | noun (n.) A genus of owls including the great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) of Arctic America, and other similar species. See Illust. of Owl. |
ulva | noun (n.) A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce. |
uncia | noun (n.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce. |
noun (n.) A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem. |
uncinata | noun (n. pl.) A division of marine chaetopod annelids which are furnished with uncini, as the serpulas and sabellas. |
ungka | noun (n.) The siamang; -- called also ungka ape. |
unguiculata | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata). |
ungula | noun (n.) A hoof, claw, or talon. |
noun (n.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse. | |
noun (n.) Same as Unguis, 3. |
ungulata | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla. |
unipara | noun (n.) A woman who has borne one child. |
univalvia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Gastropoda. |
upupa | noun (n.) A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe. |
uraemia | noun (n.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease. |
urania | noun (n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. |
noun (n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies. |
uranometria | noun (n.) A uranometry. |
urea | adjective (a.) A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc. |
urethra | noun (n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged. |
urocerata | noun (n. pl.) A division of boring Hymenoptera, including Tremex and allied genera. See Illust. of Horntail. |
urochorda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Tunicata. |
urodela | noun (n. pl.) An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals. |
ursa | noun (n.) Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below. |
ursula | noun (n.) A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple. |
urtica | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n. |
urticaria | noun (n.) The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo. |
urva | noun (n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder. |
usnea | noun (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests. |
utia | noun (n.) Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits. |
utica | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale. |
utopia | noun (n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. |
noun (n.) Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection. |
utricularia | noun (n.) A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium, |
uva | noun (n.) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, as a grape. |
uvea | noun (n.) The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat. |
uvula | noun (n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate. |
uzema | noun (n.) A Burman measure of twelve miles. |