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Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

ed by the reflexive pronoun. The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. T. Burnet.

Any crustacean of the family Astacidæ, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The…

Crescent-shaped. "Crescentic lobes." R. Owen.

The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hæmoglobin.

The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

llization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.

An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

ate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

joint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.

s separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes. The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon.

Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster. [Prov. Eng.]

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.