Crossword clues for suspensor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspensor \Sus*pen"sor\, n. [NL.]
A suspensory.
(Bot.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) An athletic support; a jockstrap 2 The cord which suspends the embryo, and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
WordNet
n. a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise [syn: athletic supporter, supporter, jockstrap, jock]
Usage examples of "suspensor".
By the half-light of a suspensor lamp, dimmed and hanging near the floor, the awakened boy could see a bulky female shape at his door, standing one step ahead of his mother.
Light glowed in the room from golden balls hanging in mobile suspensor fields.
Its compressed suspensor field distorted the vision of its transmitter eye.
In the dining hall of the Arrakeen great house, suspensor lamps had been lighted against the early dark.
Leto lifted his water flagon, held it aloft where the suspensor, lights shot beams of reflection off it.
In the sudden stillness, a suspensor light drifted slightly in an errant breeze from the serving kitchen hallway.
Leto stood in the foyer of his house, studying a note by the light of a single suspensor lamp.
His face reflected yellow from the light of a single, brighter suspensor above the door.
He straightened the padded suspensor beneath the fat folds of his neck, stared across the single glowglobe of his bedchamber to the doorway where Captain Nefud stood blocked by the pentashield.
The Baron reached beneath a drapery beside his suspensor bed, pressed a button to summon his older nephew, Rabban.
He stepped into the room, flicked a glance past the air disturbance of the body shield, searched for a suspensor chair, found none.
Feyd-Rautha found a suspensor chair, accomplished a mental shrug as he sat down in it without being asked.
He leaned back in his suspensor chair, the eyes in their folds of fat boring into Hawat.
BOXES: the general term for any cargo container of irregular shape and equipped with ablation surfaces and suspensor damping system.
Even the aisles were packed with distinguished guests, seated on portable, new-model suspensor chairs that floated in available spaces.