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A labial palp.

One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium.

A sterile transformed stamen.

One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.

Pale, like a sick girl. Shak.

Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.

A metacarpal bone.

Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope. Huxley.

Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.

to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.

Municipal condition.

A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

To bring under municipal oversight or control; as, a municipalized industry.

In a municipal relation or condition.

Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.

A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceæ.

A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

Having few sepals.

A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.