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A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.

One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.

A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

A polymeric form of terpene, resembling terbene.

Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. Gladstone.

belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

c acid. By extension, any one of a series of derived acids, called also metatitanic acid, polytitanic acid, etc. -- Titanic iron ore. (Min.) See Menaccanite.

Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.

t.), a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works. -- Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata. -- Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal…

ning to, or characterized by, trimorphism; -- contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.

f having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism. Heterogonous trimporphism (Bot.), that condition in which flowers of plants of the same species have three different lengths of stamens, short, medium, and long, the blossoms of one individual plant h…

The third order of the Linnæan class Polygamia.

n of mankind including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians.

complished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinning of crystal lamellæ, as that of the triclinic feldspars. -- Repeated twinning, twinning of more than two crystals, or parts of crystals. -- Twinning axis, Twinning plane. See the Note und…

ther silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. -- Ultramarine ash or as…

A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.

vate possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly. [R.] Milton.