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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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Cephalopoda :: Cephalopoda (n. pl.) The highest class of Mollusca.

Rhyncholite :: Rhyncholite (n.) A fossil cephalopod beak.

Scallion :: Scallion (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot..

Anthelion :: Anthelion (n.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank..

Devilfish :: Devilfish (n.) A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus..

Grimme :: Grimme (n.) A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon..

Procoele :: Procoele (n.) A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain.

Mesocephalon :: Mesocephalon (n.) The pons Varolii.

Aurocephalous :: Aurocephalous (a.) Having a gold-colored head.

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata..

#NAME? :: -gen () A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen..

Microcephalous :: Microcephalous (a.) Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic.

Encephalos :: Encephalos (n.) The encephalon.

Goniatite :: Goniatite (n.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic..

Macrencephalic :: Macrencephalic (a.) Alt. of Macrencephalou.

Cachalot :: Cachalot (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale..

Encephalous :: Encephalous (a.) Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.

Protoconch :: Protoconch (n.) The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods..

Infundibulum :: Infundibulum (n.) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.

Halo :: Halo (n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus..