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yellow, and white, with six long breast feathers on each side, ending in long, slender filaments. See Bird of paradise in the Vocabulary. -- Paradise fish (Zoöl.), a beautiful fresh-water Asiatic fish (Macropodus viridiauratus) having very large fins. It is often kept alive as an ornamental fish. -- Paradise flycatc…

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellæ.

Same as Lamellibranchia.

Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the flowers of the linden.

ike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination. Flame percussed by air giveth a noise. Bacon.

One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.

A crustacean gill composed of lamellæ.

pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.

An insect that flies into a flame.

Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. Spenser. The most piteous tale of Lear. Shak.

Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser.

To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic] Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.

Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament. Chaucer."The Psalmist's mournful plaint." Wordsworth.

Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden.

ould he skip and play! Pope. And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword. Keble.

rima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a slender tube wh…

Linnæan class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.