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Same as Didelphic.

hich includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix. Cuvier.

A Linnæan class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family.

Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

One of the Monodelphia.

The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See Mammalia.

Of or pertaining to the Monodelphia.

Same as Monotremata. -- Or`ni*tho*del"phid, a.

Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the flowers of the linden.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.

A Linnæan class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.

Belonging to the class Polyadelphia; having stamens united in three or more bundles.

Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

neral Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. Marshall.

In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.

A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.

A secret society of Irish Fenians founded in Philadelphia in 1881.

his nobles. Sir R. Baker. A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of reserving the federal system, and correcting its defects. W. Irving.

A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton. Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. Gibbon.