See Also: isospondylous(medicine)

effable (iou) and isospondylous (medicine)


effable (iou)



effable adjective. E17.
[Obsolete French, or Latin effabilis, from effari to utter, from EF- + fari speak: see -ABLE. Cf. earlier INEFFABLE.]
That can or may be expressed or described in words. Now only in antithesis to ineffable.
Observer Trying to take on the ineffable, philosophers are always running the risk of making the eminently effable (chairs, tables and so on) entirely mysterious.

isospondylous (medicine)


isospondylous
<zoology> Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebrae separate and normal.

Source: Websters Dictionary