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Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural- Altaic, or Turanian, languages.

A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.

A salt of uranic acid.

A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.

Pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.

The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.

al species of handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. -- Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar. We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. Neh. x. 34. -- Wood oil (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees…

bones, small irregular plates of bone often interposed in the sutures between the large cranial bones.

A yellow oil having a geraniumlike odor, produced as a side product in making phorone; -- called also xylite oil.

A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.

ondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe. Needle zeolite, needlestone; natrolite.