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One of the Phocodontia.

nct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.

Any lizard having pleurodont teeth.

A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons in the seed. -- Pol`y*cot`y*led"on*ous, a.

Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.

A division of marsupials in which there are more fore incisor teeth in each jaw.

The first or chief female singer in an opera.

Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.

Same as Pseudonavicula.

One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarinæ and some other Protozoa.

division of insects (Zoöl.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoölogists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.

Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera.

A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name. [Written also pseudonyme.]

The using of fictitious names, as by authors.

Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. -- Pseu*don"y*mous*ly, adv. -- Pseu*don"y*mous*ness, n.

A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.

A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon.

Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.

An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.

The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.