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Protopodite :: Protopodite (n.) The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

Wacky :: Wacky (n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt..

Ovate :: Ovate (a.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal..

Melaphyre :: Melaphyre (n.) Any one of several dark-colored augitic, eruptive rocks allied to basalt..

Hastated :: Hastated (n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf..

Calamus :: Calamus (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

Basaltic :: Basaltic (a.) Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava..

Sagittate :: Sagittate (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward..

Dolerite :: Dolerite (n.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt..

Scape :: Scape (n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.

Perfoliate :: Perfoliate (a.) Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Metapterygium :: Metapterygium (n.) The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Cardo :: Cardo (n.) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..

Tachylyte :: Tachylyte (n.) A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.

Antenna :: Antenna (n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids..

Base :: Base (n.) The basal plane of a crystal.

Igneous :: Igneous (a.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks..

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