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One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter.

the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. E. Darwin.

r tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

mpulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.

class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

racks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.

A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.