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Any pycnogonid.

tuting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

A tool or implement for mottling a molded article with coloring matter Knoght.

., do not produce flowers in the popular sense. For this reason the terms Anthrophyta, Phænogamia, and Panerogamia have been superseded as names of the phylum by Spermatophyta.

Plants which produce seed; phænogamia. These plants constitute the highest grand division of the vegetable kingdom.

Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.

Capable of producing seeds; phænogamic.

or writing. See Style, n., 1. That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which conve…

One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.

The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

The fibrin ferment which produces the formation of fibrin from fibrinogen.

The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

iscourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.

Same as Urinogenital.

Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phænogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. Vascular plants (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or…

gerous to man or not. These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha. The former have perforated, erectile fangs situated in the front part of the upper jaw, and are without ordinary teeth behind the fangs; the latter have permanently erect and…

ggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Lord. -- Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as C. Vitalba of Europe, and C. Virginiana of…

gin; maidenly. "Chastity and honor virginal." Spenser. Virginal generation (Biol.), parthenogenesis. -- Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen.

of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.

-- Whale shot, the name formerly given to spermaceti. -- Whale's tongue (Zoöl.), a balanoglossus.