See Also: scapulet(medicine)

dispread (iou) and scapulet (medicine)


dispread (iou)



dispread verb trans. & (rare) intrans. arch. Also disspread. Pa. t. & pple -spread. L16.
[from DIS- 1 + SPREAD verb.]
Spread out or through; extend, expand, open out.
J. Thomson Tyrant heat, dispreading through the sky. H. Williamson He saw, in hut after hut, figures dispread and inert on wet floors.

scapulet (medicine)


scapulet
<zoology> A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae.

Origin: Dim. Of scapula.

Source: Websters Dictionary