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Turned half round; half inverted.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.

Turned in the same direction with something else.

Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.

A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.

Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope. Huxley.

Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.

A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceæ.

A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Rotatory; circuitous. [R.]

Facial neuralgia.

Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.

Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusæ belonging to the Discophora.

A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennæ.

See Rhopalic.

A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.

Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.