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A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.

Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes o…

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened. Shak. The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. Chaucer.

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

f a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.

longing to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.