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Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidæ. They generally grow in plumelike forms.

Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.

A division of Radiolaria. It includes those having one more central capsules.

Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. Waterland.

The system or doctrine of the predestinarians.

One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridæ) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

ging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar. "Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." De Quincey. -- n.

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

The lower classes; beggars. "The Italian proletariate." J. A. Symonds.

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.

Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.

One who discusses any subject at pleasure.

Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina.

Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria. -- n.

A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.

An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.

One of the Reticularia.

Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.

A cultivator of roses.

Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.