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- Flattened - imp. & p. p. - of Flatten
- Scaphocerite - n. - A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.
- Muff - n. - A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- Spoonbill - n. - Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
- Phyllopoda - n. pl. - An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda.
- Lunette - n. - A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
- Sawfish - n. - Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.
- Tick - n. - Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).
- Ear-shell - n. - A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone.
- Markhoor - n. - A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.
- Patella - n. - A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.
- Quoit - n. - A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.
- Clypeastroid - a. - Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.
- Septarium - n. - A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.
- Thar - n. - A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.
- Turreted - a. - Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.
- Flat-headed - a. - Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
- Splayfoot - n. - A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
- Cadillac - n. - A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.
- Palm - n. - The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
- Lepisma - n. - A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.
- Bluff - a. - Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
- Megalocyte - n. - A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anaemia.
- Planula - n. - The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.
- Ancipitous - a. - Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.
- Sea snake - - Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.
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- H7534 רַק - 7534 רַק - רַק - - raq - rak - from רָקַק in its original sense; emaciated (as if flattened out); lean(-fleshed), thin. - - heb
- H6745 צֵלָחָה - 6745 צֵלָחָה - צֵלָחָה - - tsêlâchâh - tsay-law-khaw' - from צָלַח; something protracted or flattened out, i.e. a platter; pan. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H6742 צְלוּל - 6742 צְלוּל - צְלוּל - - tsᵉlûwl - tsel-ool' - from צָלַל in the sense of rolling; a (round or flattened) cake; cake. - Noun Masculine - heb