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Onomatopoetic. Whitney.

Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.

Onomatopoeia.

Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

One of the Pneumonophora.

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

of or pertaining to the somatopleure.

Same as Spermospore.

Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.

y the extreme reduction of the gametophyte; and by the development of seeds. All the Spermatophyta are heterosporous; fertilization of the egg cell is either through a pollen tube emitted by the microspore or (in a few gymnosperms) by spermatozoids. The phrase "flowering plants" is less distinctive than "seed plants,"…

Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta. -- Sper`ma*to*phyt"ic (#), a.

A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.

Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.

Same as Gymnolæmata.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

Plastic surgery of the mouth.

One of the Stomatopoda.

Same as Stomapoda.

Of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda.

A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.