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A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.

An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

species, becoming over four feet long. The plumed puff adder (C. cornuta) has a plumelike appendage over each eye. (b) A North American harmless snake (Heterodon platyrrhinos) which has the power of puffing up its body. Called also hog-nose snake, flathead, spreading adder, and blowing adder. Puff bird (Zoöl.), any bir…

ied genera, esp. Harpyia vinuli, of Europe. The larvæ are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages.

marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.

cale; -- more properly, but less commonly, called an octant. -- Quadrant of altitude, an appendage of the artificial globe, consisting of a slip of brass of the length of a quadrant of one of the great circles of the globe, and graduated. It may be fitted to the meridian, and being movable round to all points of the h…

A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.

eed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.

A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.

else cercariæ within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

e; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.

landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

tal shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.

arasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

A rootlike appendage.

ginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.

types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

he road. -- Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which the rood and its appendagess were set up to view. Gwilt. -- Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the body of the church, over which the rood was placed. Fairholt. -- Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave and…

One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.