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The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

scoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

ir immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.

es, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian. [Written also calycle. See Calycle.]

A hydroid of the family ampanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.

ving angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window. Canted column (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan.

The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.

rd (Zoöl.), a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Caracara. -- Carrion crow, the common European crow (Corvus corone) which feeds on carrion, insects, fruits, and seeds.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. [Written also cedren.]

A weed with a sterm of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.

ded into two principal groups: Oligochæta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychæta, including most of the marine species.

The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

lorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.