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Trisected :: Trisected (a.) Divided into three parts or segments by incisions extending to the midrib or to the base; -- said of leaves.

Nephridium :: Nephridium (n.) A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.

Cant :: Cant (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

Manitrunk :: Manitrunk (n.) The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.

Chilopoda :: Chilopoda (n. pl.) One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot..

Chilognatha :: Chilognatha (n. pl.) One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together..

Welwitschia :: Welwitschia (n.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Tympanohyal :: Tympanohyal (n.) The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man..

Chaetopoda :: Chaetopoda (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species..

Clitellus :: Clitellus (n.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes..

Chlorophane :: Chlorophane (n.) The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.

Assegai :: Assegai (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin..

Meros :: Meros (n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.

Ectomere :: Ectomere (n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals..

Prothorax :: Prothorax (n.) The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

Prescutum :: Prescutum (n.) The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and inconspicuous..

Micromere :: Micromere (n.) One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum..

Rhodophane :: Rhodophane (n.) The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

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