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Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.

Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

f evangelizing; the state of being evangelized. The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization. Hobbes.

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. Gray.

a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.

The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.

A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.

The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.

le, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom. -- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.

The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.

The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.