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Same as Holostomatous.

Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.

One of the Holostomata.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters, and equivalent to 35,315 cubic feet.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. Gray.

The condition of being obdiplostemonous.

An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.

Natural affection, as of parents for their children. [R.]

Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.

A phyllostome.

In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.

A glucoside found in the poisonous berries of a species of honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

fe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

ce of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.] Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

Liable to be lost. [R.]

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.