Name Report For First Name TEA:
TEA
First name TEA's origin is Other. TEA means "gracious gift". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TEA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tea.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with TEA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TEA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TEA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TEA AS A WHOLE:
dorotea antea galatea metea teadora tearle pereteanu aletea maitea mattea teal tealia teamhair teanna teaonia trinitea askuwheteau risteard steadman stearn steathford teaghue teague tearlach costea halstead matea tearly tearley stearc teaganNAMES RHYMING WITH TEA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ea) - Names That Ends with ea:
dorothea aurea chelsea aeaea airlea alethea althaea amalthea anticlea astraea cytherea eidothea ennea gaea leucothea medea orea panthea penthea penthesilea philothea rhea thaddea thea timothea alamea kamea maylea amalea floarea andrea mircea alesea alexandrea alurea alyshea annathea anndreea audrea bernadea bethea boadicea bodiccea bodicea boudicea brea clodovea deandrea dukinea dulcinea erea galea holea janea kailea kaylea kealsea kelsea kolleea lashea lea leondrea linnea mathea matthea nacumbea orquidea shawnasea cumhea gildea o'shea shea dea ricwea pennlea kea harelea graeglea fearnlea aenedlea marea azalea nicea lydea astrea anthea althea elethea edrea nerea enea kalea hoseaNAMES RHYMING WITH TEA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (te) - Names That Begins with te:
teca tecla ted tedd teddi teddie teddy tedman tedmond tedmun tedmund tedra tedric tedrick teegan teela teetonka teferi tefnut tegan tegene tegid tehuti tehya teicuih teigan teige teijo teiljo teimhnean teiran teirney teirtu teisha teithi teka tekle telamon telegonus telemachus telen telephus telfer telfor telford telfour tellan telma telutci teme temima temira temman tempeltun tempest tempeste temple templeton tennyson tenoch tentagil teo teodor teodora teodoro teodosie teofila teofile teoma teon teoxihuitl tepiltzin tepin teppo terceira terciero terell teremun terence terentia teresa terese teresina teresita tereus teri teriana teriann terika terilynn teris terpsichore terra terrall terran terrance terrel terrell terrelle terrenceNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TEA:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'a':
tabatha tabetha tabia tabitha tablita tabora tadita tahlia tahra taipa taiyana taka takala takara takoda tala taletha talia talisha talitha tallia talora talya talyssa tama tamanna tamara tamera tamika tamma tammara tamra 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 terza tesia tessa tessema tessia teva thaddia thadina thalassa thaleia thalia thecla theda thekla thelma thema 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 TEA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TEA AS A WHOLE:
| adamantean | adjective (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant. |
| anteact | noun (n.) A preceding act. |
| anteal | adjective (a.) Being before, or in front. |
| atlantean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong. |
| bateau | noun (n.) A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. |
| bedstead | noun (n.) A framework for supporting a bed. |
| beefsteak | noun (n.) A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling. |
| bibracteate | adjective (a.) Furnished with, or having, two bracts. |
| bonapartean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family. |
| bractea | noun (n.) A bract. |
| bracteal | adjective (a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract. |
| bracteate | adjective (a.) Having a bract or bracts. |
| chateau | noun (n.) A castle or a fortress in France. |
| noun (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg. |
| costeaning | noun (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits. |
| couteau | noun (n.) A knife; a dagger. |
| coteau | noun (n.) A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide. |
| noun (n.) The side of a valley. |
| dantean | adjective (a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings. |
| doorstead | noun (n.) Entrance or place of a door. |
| ebracteate | adjective (a.) Without bracts. |
| ectosteal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification. |
| endosteal | adjective (a.) Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification. |
| farmstead | noun (n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. |
| farmsteading | noun (n.) A farmstead. |
| fibrochondrosteal | adjective (a.) Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. |
| gigantean | adjective (a.) Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. |
| girdlestead | noun (n.) That part of the body where the girdle is worn. |
| noun (n.) The lap. |
| gluteal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutaeus. |
| gymnoblastea | noun (n. pl.) The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule. |
| galatea | noun (n.) A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white. |
| holostean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Holostei. |
| homestead | noun (n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. |
| noun (n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin. | |
| noun (n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. |
| homesteader | noun (n.) One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. |
| jetteau | noun (n.) See Jet d'eau. |
| lacteal | noun (n.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels. |
| lactean | adjective (a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. |
| adjective (a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle. |
| manstealer | noun (n.) A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings. |
| manstealing | noun (n.) The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e/slave them. |
| manteau | noun (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle. |
| noun (n.) A gown worn by women. |
| marketstead | noun (n.) A market place. |
| merestead | noun (n.) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. |
| misteaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misteach |
| nemetean | noun (n.) One of the Nemertina. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nemertina. |
| noonstead | noun (n.) The position of the sun at noon. |
| ommateal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an ommateum. |
| onstead | noun (n.) A single farmhouse; a steading. |
| osteal | adjective (a.) Osseous. |
| otosteal | noun (n.) An auditory ossicle. |
| periosteal | adjective (a.) Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum. |
| petrostearine | noun (n.) A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TEA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ea) - English Words That Ends with ea:
| ailuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. |
| alcyonacea | noun (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria. |
| allantoidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
| althaea | noun (n.) Alt. of Althea |
| althea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. |
| amenorrhoea | noun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge. |
| ammonitoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. |
| amoebea | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms. |
| anallantoidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms. |
| anthropoidea | noun (n. pl.) The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man. |
| aperea | noun (n.) The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea). |
| apnoea | noun (n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation. |
| arachnoidea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Arachnida. |
| araneoidea | noun (n. pl.) See Araneina. |
| arctoidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc. |
| area | noun (n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. |
| noun (n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands. | |
| noun (n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building. | |
| noun (n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas. | |
| noun (n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle. | |
| noun (n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area. | |
| noun (n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. |
| ascidioidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| asiphonea | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Asiphonida |
| asterioidea | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Asteridea |
| asteridea | noun (n. pl.) A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal. |
| azalea | noun (n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron. |
| balaenoidea | noun (n.) A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen. |
| bdelloidea | noun (n. pl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea. |
| blastoidea | noun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form. |
| blea | noun (n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood. |
| blennorrhea | noun (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. |
| noun (n.) Gonorrhea. |
| bohea | noun (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea. |
| bougainvillaea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts. |
| barathea | noun (n.) A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern. |
| castanea | noun (n.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin. |
| centaurea | noun (n.) A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa). |
| cestoidea | noun (n. pl.) A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. |
| cetacea | noun (n. pl.) An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders: |
| chondroganoidea | noun (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton. |
| chorea | noun (n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs. |
| cobaea | noun (n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers. |
| cochlea | noun (n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear. |
| cornea | noun (n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye. |
| cowpea | noun (n.) The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States. |
| noun (n.) A leguminous plant (Vigna Sinensis, syn. V. Catjang) found throughout the tropics of the Old World. It is extensively cultivated in the Southern United States for fodder, and the seed is used as food for man. |
| crinoidea | noun (n. pl.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula. |
| crustacea | noun (n. pl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. |
| cumacea | noun (n. pl.) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size. |
| cynoidea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes. |
| cypraea | noun (n.) A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie. |
| cystidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems. |
| cystoidea | noun (n.) Same as Cystidea. |
| delphinoidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms. |
| diarrhea | noun (n.) Alt. of Diarrhoea |
| diarrhoea | noun (n.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux. |
| digenea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TEA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (te) - Words That Begins with te:
| 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. |
| teaberry | noun (n.) The checkerberry. |
| teaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teach |
| noun (n.) The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction. |
| teachable | adjective (a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile. |
| teachableness | noun (n.) Willingness to be taught. |
| teache | noun (n.) One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. |
| noun (n.) Any, esp. the last, of the series of boilers or evaporating pans. |
| teacher | noun (n.) One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. |
| noun (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. |
| teachless | adjective (a.) Not teachable. |
| teacup | noun (n.) A small cup from which to drink tea. |
| teacupful | noun (n.) As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup. |
| tead | noun (n.) Alt. of Teade |
| teade | noun (n.) A torch. |
| teagle | noun (n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift. |
| teague | noun (n.) An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt. |
| teak | noun (n.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree. |
| teakettle | noun (n.) A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc. |
| teal | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings. |
| team | noun (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter. |
| noun (n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together. | |
| noun (n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A flock of wild ducks. | |
| noun (n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. | |
| verb (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster. | |
| verb (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. |
| teamed | adjective (a.) Yoked in, or as in, a team. |
| teaming | noun (n.) The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team. |
| noun (n.) Contract work. |
| teamster | noun (n.) One who drives a team. |
| teamwork | noun (n.) Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor. |
| noun (n.) Work done by a number of associates, usually each doing a clearly defined portion, but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole; as, the teamwork of a football eleven or a gun crew. |
| teapot | noun (n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups. |
| teapoy | noun (n.) An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea. |
| tear | noun (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. |
| noun (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. | |
| noun (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. | |
| noun (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. | |
| noun (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave. |
| tearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tear |
| tearer | noun (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence. |
| tearful | adjective (a.) Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. |
| tearless | adjective (a.) Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. |
| tearpit | noun (n.) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance. |
| teary | adjective (a.) Wet with tears; tearful. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears. |
| teasing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tease |
| tease | noun (n.) One who teases or plagues. |
| verb (v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. | |
| verb (v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. |
| teasel | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth. |
| noun (n.) A bur of this plant. | |
| noun (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap. |
| teaseling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teasel |
| noun (n.) The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. |
| teaseler | noun (n.) One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. |
| teaser | noun (n.) One who teases or vexes. |
| noun (n.) A jager gull. | |
| noun (n.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open. |
| teasle | noun (n. & v. t.) See Teasel. |
| teaspoon | noun (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. |
| teaspoonful | noun (n.) As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful. |
| teat | noun (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit. |
| noun (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal. |
| teated | adjective (a.) Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal. |
| teathe | noun (n. & v.) See Tath. |
| teatish | adjective (a.) Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish. |
| teazel | noun (n. & v. t.) See Teasel. |
| teazer | noun (n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works. |
| teazle | noun (n. & v. t.) See Teasel. |
| tebeth | noun (n.) The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January. |
| techiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being techy. |
| technic | adjective (a.) Technical. |
| adjective (a.) The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique. | |
| adjective (a.) Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TEA:
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. |
| 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. |
| thysanoptera | noun (n. pl.) A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips. |
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