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A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

ate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

An animal resembling an annelid.

A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

ained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

An animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot.

ed in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases.

ge of a roof. -- Anticlinal vertebra (Anat.), one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined.

One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.