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A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of…

A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. Peat bog, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it oc…

Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.

One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.…

An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.

tose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.

m customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

rocess of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.

To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan.

That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.

The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

sed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.

Vegetable physiology.

The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.

A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.

Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.

Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.