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A favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.

A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, -- used for external injuries. [Obs.]

An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

An extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet, pelvis, and other parts.

Same as Pycnogonida.

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheæ.

Same as Lamellibranchia.

A measure or series consisting of five feet.

One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. See Illust. of Crustacea.

-- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.

One of the Phyllopoda.

ed or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda.

Of or pertaining to the Phyllopoda.

One of the Physopoda; a thrips.

Same as Thysanoptera.

An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.

Same as Prosobranchiata.

Same as Infusoria.

One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust. under Crustacea.