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The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.

A kind of black tea. [Written also pecco.]

e meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.

The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet. Shak.

A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

The pewee, or pewit.

The sun. "Phoebus 'gins arise." Shak.

Of or pertaining to Phoenica. -- n.

See Phenicious.

A genus of birds which includes the flamingoes.

Same as Phenix. Shak.

A red coloring matter found in algæ of the subclass Florideæ.

A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to zoöphytes.

Having the toes turned in.

Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebræ of some extinct dinouaurs.

One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances.

Same as Sauropsida.