textularian (tekstularian)

and n. Textularia + -an.] I. a. Belonging to or having the characters of Textularia in a broad sense; textularidean. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 458. II. n. A textularian foraminifer. Textularidea (tekstū-lā-ride-ä), n. pl. [NL., II. n. A textularian in a broad sense. -th When scenes are detached from the texture of a play, each scene inevitably loses something of the effect which, in the dramatist's conception, belonged to it as part of "a single action." Cla ical Rev., ΙΙ. 248. 5. In biol., a ti ue; the character or mode of formation of ti ues.-6. In the fine arts, the surface quality of animate or inanimate objects, natural or artificial, which expre es to the eye the disposition and arrangement of their component ti ues. - Cavernous texture. See cavernous. -Texture of rocks, the mode of aggregation of the mineral substances of which rocks are composed. It relates to the arrangement of their parts viewed on a smaller scale than that of their structure. The texture of rocks may be compact, earthy, granular, scaly, slaty, etc. See structure. texture (tekstūr), v. t.; pret. and pp. textured, ppr. texturing. [