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The sea otter.

A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.

The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm. [Written also kameela.]

A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.

Same as Lamellibranchia.

A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.

A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; - - so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.

Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law. Mala in se Etym: [L.] (Law), offenses which are such from their own nature, at common law, irrespective of statute. -- Mala prohibita Etym: [L.] (Law), offenses prohibited by statute, as distinguished from mala in se, which are offenses at common law.

region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.

See Melocoton.

A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. Malacca cane (Bot.), a cane obtained from a species of palm of the genus Calamus (C. Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.

Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

Softening; relaxing. [Obs.]

The act of making soft or supple. [Obs.] Bacon.

A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.

A variety of pyroxene.

One versed in the science of malacology.

The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.