Last name origins & meanings: 1  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: nickname for a newcomer to a place, from nie ânewâ (variant of German neu or Dutch nieuw) + man âmanâ. 2  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: Perhaps also from niemand ânobodyâ, hence a nickname for an orphan or a person of no account.ast name origins & meanings: 1  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: nickname for a newcomer to a place, from nie ânewâ (variant of German neu or Dutch nieuw) + man âmanâ. 2  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: Perhaps also from niemand ânobodyâ, hence a nickname for an orphan or a person of no account.
GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: onychophoran(n.) Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.
Definition of Hypophora. A hypophora is a figure of speech in which the speaker both asks a question and immediately answers it. Therefore, a hypophora is not the same as a rhetorical questionâwhich does not necessarily have an answerâas the speaker frames the hypophorical question in order to answer it. Hypophora is often a way of reasoning aloud.