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Terebrantia
n. pl.
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A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
Terebrate
v. t.
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To perforate; to bore; to pierce.
Terebrating
a.
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Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.
Terebrating
a.
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Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.
Terebration
n.
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The act of terebrating, or boring.
Terebratulae
pl.
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of Terebratula
Terebratula
n.
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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.
Terebratulid
n.
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Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.
Terebratuliform
a.
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Having the general form of a terebratula shell.
Teredine
n.
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A borer; the teredo.
Teredos
pl.
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of Teredo
Teredines
pl.
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of Teredo
Teredo
n.
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A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.
Terephthalate
n.
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A salt of terephthalic acid.
Terephthalic
a.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.
Teret
a.
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Round; terete.
Terete
a.
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Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.
Teretial
a.
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Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.
Teretous
a.
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Terete.
Tergal
a.
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Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.
Tergant
a.
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Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.
Tergeminal
a.
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Alt. of Tergeminate
Tergeminate
a.
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Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.
Tergeminous
a.
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Threefold; thrice-paired.
Tergiferous
a.
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Carrying or bearing upon the back.
Tergite
n.
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The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.
Tergiversate
v. i.
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To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
Tergiversation
n.
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The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
Tergiversation
n.
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Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.
Tergiversator
n.
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One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.