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- English Word Gnathostoma Definition A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them.
- English Word Gnathotheca Definition The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.
- English Word GnathothecAe Definition of Gnathotheca
- English Word Gnatling Definition A small gnat.
- English Word Gnatworm Definition The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.
- English Word Gnaw Definition To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.
- English Word Gnaw Definition To bite in agony or rage.
- English Word Gnaw Definition To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
- English Word Gnaw Definition To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.
- English Word Gnawed Definition of Gnaw
- English Word Gnawer Definition One who, or that which, gnaws.
- English Word Gnawer Definition A rodent.
- English Word Gnawing Definition of Gnaw
- English Word Gneiss Definition A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
- English Word Gneissic Definition Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.
- English Word Gneissoid Definition Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.
- English Word Gneissose Definition Having the structure of gneiss.
- English Word Gnew Definition imp. of Gnaw.
- English Word Gnide Definition To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
- English Word Gnof Definition Churl; curmudgeon.