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Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.

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Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.

Plucked; pilled; moulting. " A pulled hen." Chaucer.

Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium).

Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges. Purfled work (Arch.), delicate tracery, especially in Gothic architecture.

The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.

Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. "A sharp- quilled porcupine." Shak. Quilled suture (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.…

Having five angles; quinquangular.

Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.

Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.

Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. Rat-tailed larva (Zoöl.), the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See Eristalis. -- Rat-tailed serpent (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance. -- Rat-tailed shrew (Zoöl.), the musk shrew.

Rectangular. Hutton.

Having a red tail. Red-tailed hawk (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.

Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.

Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. Ring- tailed cat (Zoöl.), the cacomixle. -- Ring-tailed eagle (Zoöl.), a young golden eagle.

Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.

Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.

Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle; saddle-backed.

A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.