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A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.

Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

A one-seeded, one-called, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.

A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.] To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. Shak.

; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

exploded by a fuse; -- used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations. -- Detonating tube, a strong tube of glass, usually graduated, closed at one end, and furnished with two wires passing through its sides at opposite points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark,…

ion of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

tance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

the component screws. -- Differential thermometer, a thermometer usually with a U-shaped tube terminating in two air bulbs, and containing a colored liquid, used for indicating the difference between the temperatures to which the two bulbs are exposed, by the change of position of the colored fluid, in consequence of…

Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn. [Obs.] -- Dif"fi*cile*ness, n. [Obs.] Bacon.

Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.

bita Diogenes), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops. -- Diogenes' tub, the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.

white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

m a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.

A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.