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Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. Gray.

Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

A branching like a. fork.

The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.

That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

or to his principles and method of treating diseases. Dunglison. Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

ealogical tree, a family lineage or genealogy drawn out under the form of a tree and its branches.

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of…

The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.

An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills. Ray.

An ornamental branched candlestick.

deres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

es, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

Any slender branched gorgonian.

e principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c