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A suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. See Fang.

at of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.

A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.

Hernia formed by the spleen.

A description of the spleen.

Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.

The branch of science which treats of the spleen.

Of or pertaining to a villein.

Any one of six metameric phenol derivatives of xylene, obtained as crystalline substances, (CH3)2.C6H3.OH.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

ing drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.

nger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.

A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.

able from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron. Rhombohedral iron ore (Min.) See Hematite. -- Rhombohedral system (Crystallog.), a division of the hexagonal system embracing the rhombohedron, scalenohedron, etc.

ntalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.

ral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are…

angerous to man or not. These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha. The former have perforated, erectile fangs situated in the front part of the upper jaw, and are without ordinary teeth behind the fangs; the latter have permanently erect a…

ed as a white crystalline substance by the action of sodium and carbon dioxide on crude xylenol.

One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples.