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The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. Exodus xxviii. 6-12.

Pertaining to the epipodialia or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.

The outer branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

One of the lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods.

Same as Episodic.

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

Pertaining to an episode; by way of episode; episodic.

Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. -- Ep`i*so"dic*al*ly, adv. Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait. H. James.

The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.

See Scrod, a young cod.

Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.

A group which includes the typical Isopoda.