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A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.

ng two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix. Totten.

One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillæ. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.

ollowing the zoëa, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.

An indue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.

The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.

An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.

which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix.

Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

One of the Nematoidea. see Illustration in Appendix.

which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.

rve, Spinal cord, under Spinal, and Sympathetic system, under Sympathetic, and Illust. in Appendix. -- Nervous temperament, a condition of body characterized by a general predominance of mental manifestations. Mayne.

Any Australian bat of the genus Nyctophilus, having a very simple nasal appendage.

Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage. [Obs.] Johnson.

ars; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er.

The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.