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Not either; not the one or the other. Which of them shall I take Both one or neither Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive. Shak. He neither loves, Nor either cares for him. Shak.

A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, N. speciosa. [Written also Nelumbium.]

Having the form of threads; fibrous.

A fibrous variety of brucite.

Same as Nemathelminthes.

A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algæ, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.

An order of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms. [Written also Nematelminthea.]

. A combining from Gr. nhema, nhematos, a thread.

A spermatocyte or spermoblast.

One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidæ. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.

A suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennæ, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; -- called also Nemocera.

A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso.

Same as Nematoid.

One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to Ant: rhombogene.

one of the Nematognathi.

An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.

of or pertaining to the Nematoidea. -- n.

An order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. Called also Nematodea, and Nematoda.

Nematoid.

Same as Cælenterata.