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(Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

r, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

racteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not…

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

ion to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

f a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

o walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

e doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

rate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.