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Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.

Having long or large feet, or a long stem.

A macropod.

Having long legs or feet.

A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.

A division of birds; the Longipennes.

Having long wings.

genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.

See Macroprism.

A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.

A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic (#), a.

A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.

An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

Of or pert. to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds.

which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.

Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.

A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.

The art of making microphotographs.

An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

Small-leaved.