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Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.

Of or pertaining to a parallax.

Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.

The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. Jer. Taylor.

Having five digits to the hand or foot.

Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyl limb.

To go through with; to perform. [Obs.] Sylvester.

One of the Perissodactyla.

that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. "Petrifaction of the soul." Cudworth.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction. The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne.

Same as Saururæ.

A genus including certain comma-shaped marine bacteria which emit bluish or greenish phosphorescence. Also, any microörganism of this group.

A phylactery. Sandys.

Wearing a phylactery.

Of or pertaining to phylacteries.

Any charm or amulet worn as a preservative from danger or disease.

A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.

An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

Of or pertaining to the Phylactolæma.