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Containing or resembling collagen.

Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc. ; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet. Cheyne.

e components) when acting in given directions. Herbert. -- Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. -- Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four proportionals so that the sum of the arran…

-- Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether. -- Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion. -- Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction. -- Compound fracture. See Fracture. -- Compou…

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae. Yon exiguous pool's confervous scum. O. W. Holmes.

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico- hemispherical; conico-subulate.

A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification. We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed. Abp. Bramhall.

Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. [Obs.] Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.

The act of calling or assembling by summons.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.

resembling coral in form.

resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.