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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.

To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]

The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.

Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens.

Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

e very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.

Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene.

A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

he anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.

Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

A Linnæan class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens.

Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.

, pertaining to, or designating, a certain tribasic acid (called also trimellitic acid) metameric with trimesitic acid.

condition in which flowers of plants of the same species have three different lengths of stamens, short, medium, and long, the blossoms of one individual plant having short and medium stamens and a long style, those of another having short and long stamens and a style of medium length, and those of a third having mediu…