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A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.

r countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

See Cosmopolitan.

Having the character of a cosmopolite. [R.] Hackluyt.

The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

See Chrysoberyl.

Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.

Dermatopathic.

A dermatophyte.

The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidæ).

An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

Same as Dermopterygii.

A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.

One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvæ feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon,

Relating to the Entomophaga. -- n.

Feeding on insects; insectivorous.

Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.