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Haematoplastic :: Haematoplastic (a.) Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels..

Bowwow :: Bowwow (a.) Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word..

Palatopterygoid :: Palatopterygoid (a.) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed..

Catopter :: Catopter (n.) Alt. of Catoptro.

Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them..

Bowwow :: Bowwow (n.) An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.

Catoptromancy :: Catoptromancy (n.) A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable..

Basommatophora :: Basommatophora (n. pl.) A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails..

Steatopygous :: Steatopyga (n.) A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women..

Keratophyte :: Keratophyte (n.) A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

Onomatopoeic :: Onomatopoeic (a.) Onomatopoetic.

Thanatopsis :: Thanatopsis (n.) A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

Stylommatophorous :: Stylommatophora (n. pl.) A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

Spermatophore :: Spermatophore (n.) Same as Spermospore.

Haemoplastic :: Haemoplastic (a.) Same as Haematoplastic.

Dermatophyte :: Dermatophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin..

Somatic :: Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo..

Hectocotylus :: Hectocotylus (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes..

Onomatopoeia :: Onomatopoeia (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire..

Stylopodia :: Stylommatophorous (a.) Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.

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