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Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..

Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..

Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

Interchangeable :: Interchangeable (a.) Following each other in alternate succession; as, the four interchangeable seasons..

Antiphony :: Antiphony (n.) An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively.

Subalternate :: Subalternate (a.) Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.

Sardonyx :: Sardonyx (n.) A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.

Antiphonal :: Antiphonal (a.) Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs..

Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence..

Corrugation :: Corrugation (n.) The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Alternated :: Alternated (imp. & p. p.) of Alternat.

Interchange :: Interchange (n.) Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling.

Nodose :: Nodose (a.) Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects..

Quatrain :: Quatrain (n.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate..

Amoebean :: Amoebean (a.) Alternately answering.

Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Interchange :: Interchange (v. i.) To make an interchange; to alternate.

Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Ague :: Ague (n.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits..

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