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pholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. Butter and eg…

Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomain…

Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. Caliper square, a draugh…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [U. S.]

the order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.

Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.

Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.