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A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Producing fruit below the ground.

stric region. (a) The lower part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.

Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant. Gray.

s or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic se…

-- Iliac region, a region of the abdomen, on either side of the hypogastric regions, and below the lumbar regions.

ight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope.

The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)

rror of the zero adjustment. -- Index expurgatorius. Etym: [L.] See Index prohibitorius (below). -- Index finger. See Index, 5. -- Index glass, the mirror on the index of a quadrant, sextant, etc. -- Index hand, the pointer or hand of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; a hand that points to something. -…

thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction motor; at synchronism the power component of current becomes zero and changes sign, so that above synchronism the machine (driven for this purpose b…

Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian,

Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity.

Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.

Situated below the axil, as a bud.

Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

Below the clavicle; as, the infraclavicular fossa.

Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.

Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain.

Situated below the eyes, as the antenna of certain insects.

Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.