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The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

On my life; dearly. [Obs.] "I love that sport alife." Beau. & Fl.

Having wings, winged; aligerous. [R.]

Almond-bearing.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

Generating bile.

A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.

Bearing or producing cells.

Bearing or producing little cells.

See Book scorpion, under Book.

Having cheliform claws, like a crab.

[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

Containing or producing coral.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

Producing threads. Carpenter.

Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]

Containing or composed of fossils.

Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.

Bearing glandules.