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Mugweed :: Mugweed (n.) A slender European weed (Galium Cruciata); -- called also crossweed.

Spindle-legged :: Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender..

Filaria :: Filaria (n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm..

Pedicellina :: Pedicellina (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta..

Coralline :: Coralline (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.

Zoospore :: Zoospore (n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore..

Runner :: Runner (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil..

Zebu :: Zebu (n.) A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a large, prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common ox to that of a large mastiff..

Slender :: Slender (superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet..

Cirrobranchiata :: Cirrobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda..

Spinose :: Spinny (a.) Thin and long; slim; slender.

Halesia :: Halesia (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels..

Lady''s Comb :: Lady's comb () An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb..

Ophiuroidea :: Ophiuroidea (n. pl.) A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star..

Lanarkite :: Lanarkite (n.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color..

Spit :: Spit (n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting..

Aristate :: Aristate (a.) Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip..

Shipworm :: Shipworm (n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo..

Puttyroot :: Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve..

Virgate :: Virgate (a.) Having the form of a straight rod; wand-shaped; straight and slender.

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