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Having exactly as many stamens as petals.

The quality or state of being isostemonous.

A salt of isosulphocyanic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, HNCS, isomeric with sulphocyanic acid.

Same as Mosasauria.

A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.

Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.

The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.

Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.

See the Note under Meteorite.

A membrane of a seed. See Secundine.

A product of metabolic action.

Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.

The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.

Same as Mosasaurus.

Of or pertaining to the internasal septum.

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.

An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

Pertaining to the Physostomi.

The condition, pursuits, or occupation of a virtuoso. Bp. Hurd.