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A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.

The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil. Yule.

A white or buff-colored granular powder,

hite crystalline substance, -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.

The black hellebore. [Obs.] Spenser.

The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.

A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.

See Methyl amine, under Methyl.

Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.

A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.

A foraminifer having but one chamber.

One-chambered.

One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids.

Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of Neo-Darwinism (which see, above). -- Ne`o-La*marck"i*an, a. & n.

A standard or ensign, in battle. "A handkerchief like an oriflamb." Longfellow. And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre. Macaulay.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.

A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

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