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One of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man.

extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.

Divided nearly to the base into three segments or lobes.

Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.

Divided into three parts or segments by incisions extending to the midrib or to the base; -- said of leaves.

That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

lids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella.

Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.

The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man.

One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods.

Any one of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.

They are often situated beneath the belly, but sometimes beneath the throat. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loop, n., 5.

One of the serial segments of the spinal column.

leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments.

A gun in the construction of which an inner tube (either entire or in segments) is wound with wire under tension to insure greater soundness and uniformity of resistance. In modern construction hoops and jackets are shrunk on over the wire.

The yellow pigment present in the inner segments of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process.

ich is used as a pigment. -- Yellow oxeye (Bot.), a yellow-flowered plant (Chrysanthemum segetum) closely related to the oxeye daisy. -- Yellow perch (Zoöl.), the common American perch. See Perch. -- Yellow pike (Zoöl.), the wall-eye. -- Yellow pine (Bot.), any of several kinds of pine; also, their yellowish and ge…

One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.