Definition of halo

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Halo (n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions..

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Omphalomesaraic :: Omphalomesaraic (a.) Omphalomesenteric.
Head :: Head (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon..
Paraselene :: Paraselene (n.) A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.
Cephalomere :: Cephalomere (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.
Postencephalon :: Postencephalon (n.) The metencephalon.
Halogenous :: Halogenous (a.) Of the nature of a halogen.
Hindbrain :: Hindbrain (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only..
Myelencephalon :: Myelencephalon (n.) The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; the neuron. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal.
Encephalology :: Encephalology (n.) The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions..
Hydrencephsloid :: Hydrencephsloid (a.) Same as Hydrocephaloid.
Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..
Acephalocystic :: Acephalocystic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts..
Siphuncle :: Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
Anaptychus :: Anaptychus (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites..
Sauba Ant :: Sauba ant () A South American ant (Oecodoma cephalotes) remarkable for having two large kinds of workers besides the ordinary ones, and for the immense size of its formicaries. The sauba ant cuts off leaves of plants and carries them into its subterranean nests, and thus often does great damage by defoliating trees and cultivated plants..
Microcephalic :: Microcephalic (a.) Alt. of Microcephalou.
Halometer :: Halometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.
Encephalon :: Encephalon (n.) The contents of the cranium; the brain.
Procerebrum :: Procerebrum (n.) The prosencephalon.
Acetabulifera :: Acetabulifera (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda..
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