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a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

Acerose; needle-shaped.

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

Heaped up; tending to heap up.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. A*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.

Needle-shaped; acicular.

Shaped like a needle.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

A grapestone.

An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

aph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.