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A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.

One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell.

bining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.

The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.

The immature ones are called bluesides. -- Harp shell (Zoöl.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.

A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnæus. It is also found in Florida.

Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing.

One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to th…

A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called. Loudon.

An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillæ), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.

pray for another. [Obs.] "We rest your hermits." Shak. Hermit crab (Zoöl.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridæ. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. -- Herm…

producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.

An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.

An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- Hom"a*roid, a.

Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.