First Names Rhyming CHANDRIA
English Words Rhyming CHANDRIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CHANDRƯA AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHANDRƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (handria) - English Words That Ends with handria:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (andria) - English Words That Ends with andria:
| decandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having ten stamens. |
| diandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens. |
| dodecandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen. |
| enneandria | noun (n.) A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens. |
| gynandria | noun (n. pl.) A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil. |
| heptandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having seven stamens. |
| hexandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens. |
| icosandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx. |
| monandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen. |
| octandria | noun (n.pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil. |
| pentandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having five separate stamens. |
| polyandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle. |
| tetrandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens. |
| triandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ndria) - English Words That Ends with ndria:
| hypochondria | noun (n.) Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues. |
| | (pl. ) of Hypochondrium |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (dria) - English Words That Ends with dria:
| enheahedria | noun (n.) Alt. of Enheahedron |
| hydria | noun (n.) A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ria) - English Words That Ends with ria:
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| aporia | noun (n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc. |
| appendicularia | noun (n.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| apteria | noun (n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae. |
| araucaria | noun (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible. |
| aria | noun (n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune. |
| auricularia | noun (n. pl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| avicularia | noun (n. pl.) See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill. |
| acetonuria | noun (n.) Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes. |
| alfileria | noun (n.) Alt. of Alfilerilla |
| anisocoria | noun (n.) Inequality of the pupils of the eye. |
| azoturia | noun (n.) Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine. |
| bacteria | noun (n.p.) See Bacterium. |
| | (pl. ) of Bacterium |
| balistraria | noun (n.) A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged. |
| bipinnaria | noun (n.) The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage. |
| brachiolaria | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia. |
| calceolaria | noun (n.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name. |
| calvaria | noun (n.) The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion. |
| cambria | noun (n.) The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets. |
| carinaria | noun (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills. |
| cercaria | noun (n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage. |
| chyluria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance. |
| cineraria | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament. |
| cnidaria | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata. |
| convallaria | noun (n.) The lily of the valley. |
| crotalaria | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox. |
| curia | noun (n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. |
| | noun (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions. |
| | noun (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. |
| | noun (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. |
| | noun (n.) Any court of justice. |
| | noun (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana. |
| caballeria | noun (n.) An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres. |
| cafeteria | noun (n.) A restaurant or cafe at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. |
| ceria | noun (n.) Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle. |
| dataria | noun (n.) Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor). |
| desmobacteria | noun (n. pl.) See Microbacteria. |
| desmomyaria | noun (n. pl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa. |
| dimyaria | noun (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve. |
| dinosauria | noun (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix. |
| diphtheria | noun (n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group. |
| dysphoria | noun (n.) Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets. |
| dysuria | noun (n.) Alt. of Dysury |
| enaliosauria | noun (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders. |
| feria | noun (n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. |
| filaria | noun (n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm. |
| fimbria | noun (n.) A fringe, or fringed border. |
| | noun (n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. |
| fistularia | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity. |
| fossoria | noun (n. pl.) See Fossores. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHANDRƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (chandri) - Words That Begins with chandri:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (chandr) - Words That Begins with chandr:
| chandry | noun (n.) Chandlery. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (chand) - Words That Begins with chand:
| chandelier | noun (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling. |
| | noun (n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. |
| chandler | noun (n.) A maker or seller of candles. |
| | noun (n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler. |
| chandlerly | adjective (a.) Like a chandler; in a petty way. |
| chandlery | noun (n.) Commodities sold by a chandler. |
| chandoo | noun (n.) An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (chan) - Words That Begins with chan:
| chance | noun (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified. |
| | noun (n.) The operation or activity of such agent. |
| | noun (n.) The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty. |
| | noun (n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. |
| | noun (n.) Probability. |
| | adjective (a.) Happening by chance; casual. |
| | verb (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object. |
| | verb (v. t.) To befall; to happen to. |
| | adverb (adv.) By chance; perchance. |
| chancing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chance |
| chanceable | adjective (a.) Fortuitous; casual. |
| chanceful | adjective (a.) Hazardous. |
| chancellery | noun (n.) Chancellorship. |
| chancellor | noun (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. |
| chancellorship | noun (n.) The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor. |
| chancery | noun (n.) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity. |
| | noun (n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity. |
| chancre | noun (n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. |
| chancroid | noun (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre. |
| chancrous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre. |
| chanfrin | noun (n.) The fore part of a horse's head. |
| changing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Change |
| changeability | noun (n.) Changeableness. |
| changeable | adjective (a.) Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. |
| | adjective (a.) Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. |
| changeableness | noun (n.) The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability. |
| changeful | adjective (a.) Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. |
| changeless | adjective (a.) That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose. |
| changeling | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. |
| | noun (n.) A simpleton; an idiot. |
| | noun (n.) One apt to change; a waverer. |
| | adjective (a.) Taken or left in place of another; changed. |
| | adjective (a.) Given to change; inconstant. |
| changer | noun (n.) One who changes or alters the form of anything. |
| | noun (n.) One who deals in or changes money. |
| | noun (n.) One apt to change; an inconstant person. |
| chank | noun (n.) The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell. |
| channel | noun (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. |
| | noun (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels. |
| | noun (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel. |
| | noun (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. |
| | noun (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. |
| | noun (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. |
| | verb (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel. |
| channeling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Channel |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of forming a channel or channels. |
| | noun (n.) A channel or a system of channels; a groove. |
| chansonnette | noun (n.) A little song. |
| chanting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chant |
| | noun (n.) Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. |
| chantant | adjective (a.) Composed in a melodious and singing style. |
| chanter | noun (n.) One who chants; a singer or songster. |
| | noun (n.) The chief singer of the chantry. |
| | noun (n.) The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe. |
| | noun (n.) The hedge sparrow. |
| chanterelle | noun (n.) A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous. |
| chanticleer | noun (n.) A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing. |
| chantor | noun (n.) A chanter. |
| chantress | noun (n.) A female chanter or singer. |
| chantry | noun (n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder. |
| | noun (n.) A chapel or altar so endowed. |
| chantey | noun (n.) A sailor's song. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cha) - Words That Begins with cha:
| chamomile | noun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative. |
| | noun (n.) See Camomile. |
| chab | noun (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus). |
| chabasite | noun (n.) Alt. of Cabazite |
| chablis | noun (n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France. |
| | noun (n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California. |
| chabouk | noun (n.) Alt. of Chabuk |
| chabuk | noun (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. |
| chace | noun (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t. |
| chachalaca | noun (n.) The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula). |
| chacma | noun (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.] |
| chaconne | noun (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations. |
| chaetetes | noun (n.) A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones. |
| chaetiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing setae. |
| chaetodont | noun (n.) A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetodonts or the family Chaetodontidae. |
| chaetognath | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha. |
| chaetognatha | noun (n. pl.) An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head. |
| chaetopod | noun (n.) One of the Chaetopoda. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Chaetopoda. |
| chaetopoda | noun (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species. |
| chaetotaxy | noun (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect. |
| chafing | noun (p pr. & vb. n.) of Chafe |
| | verb (v. t.) The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing. |
| chafe | noun (n.) Heat excited by friction. |
| | noun (n.) Injury or wear caused by friction. |
| | noun (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. |
| | verb (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. |
| | verb (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. |
| chafer | noun (n.) One who chafes. |
| | noun (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer. |
| chafewax | noun (n.) Alt. of Chaffwax |
| chaffwax | noun (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents. |
| chafeweed | noun (n.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing. |
| chaff | noun (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. |
| | noun (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. |
| | noun (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. |
| | noun (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. |
| | verb (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. |
| chaffing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaff |
| | noun (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter. |
| chaffer | noun (n.) One who chaffs. |
| | noun (n.) Bargaining; merchandise. |
| | noun (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. |
| | noun (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words. |
| chaffering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffer |
| chafferer | noun (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer. |
| chaffery | noun (n.) Traffic; bargaining. |
| chaffinch | noun (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. |
| chaffless | adjective (a.) Without chaff. |
| chaffy | adjective (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. |
| | adjective (a.) Light or worthless as chaff. |
| | adjective (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. |
| | adjective (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers. |
| chagreen | noun (n.) See Shagreen. |
| chagrin | noun (n.) Vexation; mortification. |
| | noun (n.) To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined. |
| | adjective (a.) Chagrined. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed. |
| chargrining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chagrin |
| chain | noun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. |
| | noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. |
| | noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land. |
| | noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels. |
| | noun (n.) The warp threads of a web. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. |
| | verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor. |
| chaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chain |
| chainless | adjective (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered. |
| chainlet | noun (n.) A small chain. |
| chainwork | noun (n.) Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work. |
| chair | noun (n.) A movable single seat with a back. |
| | noun (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. |
| | noun (n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair. |
| | noun (n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. |
| | noun (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place in a chair. |
| | verb (v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. |
| chairing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chair |
| chairman | noun (n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. |
| | noun (n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. |
| chairmanship | noun (n.) The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body. |
| chaise | noun (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse. |
| | noun (n.) a carriage in general. |
| chaja | noun (n.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi. |
| chalaza | noun (n.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus. |
| | noun (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle. |
| chalazal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHANDRƯA:
English Words which starts with 'cha' and ends with 'ria':
English Words which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'ia':
| chelonia | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix. |
| chthonophagia | noun (n.) Alt. of Chthonophagy |
