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(Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.

ee; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.

A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]

A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. A little chit of a woman. Thackeray.

ood takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals. [Written also chlorophyl.]

rophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.

A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]

iluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

icroscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.

Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.

hey have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.…