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Portulacaceous :: Portulacaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera..

Scolecite :: Scolecite (n.) A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also lime mesotype.

Catallacta :: Catallacta (n. pl.) A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies..

Glyptodont :: Glyptodont (n.) One of a family (Glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known..

Mes- :: Mes- () denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively.

Hell :: Hell (v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type..

Romic :: Romic (n.) A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the palaeotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler..

Caryophyllaceous :: Caryophyllaceous (a.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.

Stannous :: Stannotype (n.) A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.

Kerned :: Kerned (a.) Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.

Backed :: Backed (a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed..

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

Labyrinthodon :: Labyrinthodon (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus..

Display :: Display (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.

Phylogenetic :: Phylogenetic (a.) Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism..

Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.

Murine :: Murine (a.) Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridae), of which the mouse is the type..

Compositor :: Compositor (n.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.

Ulmaceous :: Ulmaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type..

Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

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