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A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.

Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- n.

An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, both freshwater and marine.

Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]

A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.

nance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it. [Written also corrody.]

ng small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution. Boyle.

Anything that corrodes. Bp. King.

To eat away by degrees; to corrode. [Obs.] Sandys.

The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.

Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne.

A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida c…

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. -- n.