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The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

Belonging to the Equisetaceæ, or Horsetail family.

Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.

A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important natural order of trees and shrubs (Myrtaceæ), of which the myrtle is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus, Pimenta, Lechythis, and about seventy more.

tructure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits. [Written also nucumentaceous.]

See Nucamentaceous.

Like parchment.

See Portass. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci. -- n.

Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

Of or pertaining to pyrites. See Pyritic.

Covered with ramenta.

Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutacæ) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceæ) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.

Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.