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The anatomy or dissection of birds.

The act or art of sailing on a great circle.

fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.

The property of cutting at right angles.

The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.

The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oöphorectomy.

Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is lar…

The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop.

A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

Of or pertaining to the perimysium.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

A lamprey.

The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage.

The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

The art or process of reproducing colors by photography.

ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much- branched mycelium. Reproduction is mainly sexual, by the formation of conidia or sporangia; but the group shows every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and sperm in the hig…