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A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

Relating to the boustrophedon mode of writing.

Boustrophedonic.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

See Breastband.

alamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell.

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

Same as Anadiplosis. Gibbs.

A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are they Hebrews so am I. Are they Israelites so am I." 2 Cor. xi. 22.

The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

One of the Gastropoda. [Written also gasteropod.]

One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasterop…

Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.

The act of a patient turning himself.

A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.