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the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]

resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrocosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ur

A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

ian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake (Tortrix scytale). -- Coral tree (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral wood, a hard, red cab…

-- Corn weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) A small weevil which causes great injury to grain. (b) In America, a weevil (Sphenophorus zeæ) which attacks the stalk of maize near the root, often doing great damage. See Grain weevil, under Weevil.

corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.

as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board.

ptiles, and the lower vertebrates generally, they are oval, and sometimes more or less spherical in form. In Amphioxus, and most invertebrates, the blood corpuscles are all white or colorless. -- White blood corpuscles (Physiol.), rounded, slightly flattened, nucleated cells, mainly protoplasmic in composition, and po…

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.

A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.

A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright- colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.

A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

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.

exive pronoun. The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. T. Burnet.

An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.

A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails.

umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).