SIEVELIKE

Meaning of SIEVELIKE in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective

: resembling a sieve in appearance or function

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

CRIBROSE — adj sievelike, cribriform
Interlingua English vocab
FLAMINGO — Any of five species of tall wading birds constituting the family Phoenicopteridae. The plumage is mainly pink, and the face …
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WHALE SHARK — a tropical shark, Rhincodon typus, ranging in size from 30 to 60 ft. (9 to 18 m), having small teeth …
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SIEVE — — sievelike , adj. /siv/ , n. , v. , sieved, sieving . n. 1. an instrument with a meshed …
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POROUS — — porously , adv. — porousness , n. /pawr"euhs, pohr"-/ , adj. 1. full of pores. 2. permeable by water, …
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PERCOLATOR — /perr"keuh lay'teuhr/ , n. 1. a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up …
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MADREPORITE — /mad"reuh pawr'uyt, -pohr'-, meuh drep"euh ruyt'/ , n. a sievelike plate in certain echinoderms, through which water passes into the …
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ETHMOID — /eth"moyd/ , Anat. adj. 1. Also, ethmoidal . of or pertaining to a bone at the base of the cranium …
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CRIBRIFORM — /krib"reuh fawrm'/ , adj. sievelike. Also, cribrous /krib"reuhs/ . [ 1735-45; cribr ( um ) a sieve + -I- + …
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ARCHAEOCYATHID — /ahr'kee oh suy"euh thid, ahr kee'euh-/ , n. one of the marine invertebrates of the extinct phylum Archaeocyatha, widely distributed …
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TUNNEL — horizontal or nearly horizontal subsurface passageway that occurs naturally or is made by man. Man-made tunnels are used for various …
Britannica English vocabulary
SIEVE TUBE — in flowering plants, elongated living cells (sieve-tube elements) of the phloem, the nuclei of which have fragmented and disappeared and …
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RENAL PYRAMID — any of the triangular sections of tissue that constitute the medulla, or inner substance, of the kidney. The pyramids consist …
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PHLOEM — also called bast tissues in plants that conduct foods made in the leaves to all other parts of the plant. …
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GLAUCOMA — disease caused by an increase in pressure within the eye as a result of blockage of the flow of aqueous …
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FLAMINGO — any of four species of tall wading birds, constituting the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Ciconiiformes, which also includes the …
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ETHMOID — adj. sievelike. øethmoid bone a square bone at the root of the nose, with many perforations through which the olfactory …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SIEVE — n. & v. n. a utensil having a perforated or meshed bottom for separating solids or coarse material from liquids …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ETHMOID — adj. sievelike. ethmoid bone a square bone at the root of the nose, with many perforations through which the olfactory …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SIEVE — n. & v. --n. a utensil having a perforated or meshed bottom for separating solids or coarse material from liquids …
Oxford English vocab
ETHMOID — adj. sievelike. Phrases and idioms: ethmoid bone a square bone at the root of the nose, with many perforations through …
Oxford English vocab
FLAMINGO — n. Any of five species of tall wading birds constituting the family Phoenicopteridae. The plumage is mainly pink, and the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SPONGY — Synonyms and related words : absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, baccate, bibulous, blotting, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, cribriform, digestive, doughy, edematous, endosmotic, exosmotic, flabby, …
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POROUS — Synonyms and related words : cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable, percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny, sievelike, spongelike, …
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