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One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.

ards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal. [Obs.]

The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant; as:

The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.

The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper gla…

One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.

The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

sion, under Division). This mode of growth is characteristic of many forms of cells, both animal and vegetable.

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.

To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

orms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.

Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.