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The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness. Bacon.

Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.

Populousness.[Obs.]

The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.

Same as Prothyalosoma.

A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.

Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.

The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.

Same as Pterylosis.

Growing in very small racemes.

Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.

Having many small branches, or ramuli.

To blossom again.

To close again. Pope.

Same as Reticularia.

Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure. Reticulose rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.

A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.