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Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens.

An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.

A struggle against; resistance; opposition. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Obedient; submissive; obsequious. [Obs.] Fotherby.

from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby.

A cruciferous herb (Camelina sativa).

Pertaining to pot herbs; of the nature or having the qualities of herbs for cookery; esculent. Sir T. Browne.

Of the color of the olive; tawny. Sir T. Herbert.

atural order of plants (Onagraceæ or Onagrarieæ), which includes the fuchsia, the willow- herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ().

The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.

Open. [Poetic] Spenser. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope. Herbert.

Opposition. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

An eyeglass. [Obs.] Herbert.

A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.

eæ) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the…

g in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.

A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

The countries of Asia or the East. Chaucer. Best built city throughout the Orient. Sir T. Herbert.

An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.