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See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.

See Leucoplast.

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.

surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.

A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease. -- Me*las"mic, a.

See Molasses.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably identical with saccharic acid. See Saccharic.

A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.

Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.

Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.

The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.

sisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

ing only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.

The cell nucleus; mesoplast.

Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.

The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast. Agassix.