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A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reFuller.

A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

ms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.

One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

o a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. Chambers.

The application to God of terms descriptive of human beings.

rty of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

presses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

ame is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.