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One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

One of the segments of an articulated appendage. Articles of Confederation, the compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, p…

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

hin the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.

Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes o…

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

d the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

e to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

(Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.