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A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.

, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

Same as Malanders.

injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

Capable of being mended.

Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. Macaulay.

erning the inheritance of many characters in animals and plants, discovered by Gregor J. Mendel (Austrian Augustinian abbot, 1822-84) in breeding experiments with peas. He showed that the height, color, and other characters depend on the presence of determinating factors behaving as units. In any given germ cell each o…

Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law. -- Men*de"li*an*ism (#), Men*del"ism (#), n.

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

One who mends or repairs.

See Mendinant. [Obs.]

The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. Burke.

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

To beg. [R.] Johnson.

The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy. Sir T. Browne.

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.

A mendicant or begging friar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Amendment. [Obs.]