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ch inhabits the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil…

The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn. -- My*ce"li*al, a.

bacteria, formed by the bacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed. This production differs from the zoöloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance.

t is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.

A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.

An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.

Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

he place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

A large Asiatic antelope (Boselaphus, or Portax, tragocamelus), found in Northern India. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown. [Written also neelghau, nilgau, and nylghaie.]

Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.

supposed, by Reichenbach and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light, chemical or vital action, etc.; -- called also odyle or the odylic force. [Archaic] That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue. Mrs.…

A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia.

teogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.

lso, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.

the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

A large South African antelope (Æpyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.