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The eyestalk of a crustacean.

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.

The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.

Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa.

Same as Pseudopod.

A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.

A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n.

To adopt again. Young.

An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.

A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane. W. KÜhne.

The visual purple. See under Visual.

Situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.

of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. -- To accept t…

A connecting tube; an adopter.

To adopt (a person who is his own master).

A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor.