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Moon :: Moon (n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn..

Tricrotism :: Tricrotism (n.) That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

Snag :: Snag (n.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.

Polycrotism :: Polycrotism (n.) That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism..

Tertiary :: Tertiary (a.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary..

Sporidium :: Sporidium (n.) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi..

Decrement :: Decrement (n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced..

Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

Speculum :: Speculum (n.) A bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. It is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female..

Water Gall :: Water gall () A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow..

Involucel :: Involucel (n.) A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre..

Needle :: Needle (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

Deuterogenic :: Deuterogenic (a.) Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

Trio :: Trio (n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments..

Schiller :: Schiller (n.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin..

Axis :: Axis (n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.

Subreption :: Subreligion (n.) A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration.

Homosystemic :: Homosystemic (a.) Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates..

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