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h the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cer…

imp. of Tread. On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. Tennyson.

A genus of fossil trees.

An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.

One of the Urodela.

Of or pertaining to the Urodela. -- n.

See Waywode.

A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.

See Waywode. Longfellow.

See Waywode.

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

d hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers. [Written also vaivode, voivode, waiwode, and woiwode.]

The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.

Mad. See Wood, a. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

A geld, or payment, for wood. Burrill.

A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered. The brook escaped from the eye down a deep and wooded dell. Sir W. Scott.

Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.

Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.