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A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.

First-formed. Howell.

The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.

ergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.

See Komtok.

ish grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.

A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.

The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

A version to food; refusal to take nourishment. [Written also sitiophobia.]

The surf duck.

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

of or pertaining to the somatopleure.

Same as Spermospore.

Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.

ion of its parts (root, stem, leaves, flowers, etc.); by the extreme reduction of the gametophyte; and by the development of seeds. All the Spermatophyta are heterosporous; fertilization of the egg cell is either through a pollen tube emitted by the microspore or (in a few gymnosperms) by spermatozoids. The phrase "flo…

Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta. -- Sper`ma*to*phyt"ic (#), a.

A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.

Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.

Same as Gymnolæmata.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.