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A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.

an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

f elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimæras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimæra; also Illustration in Appendix.

Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered. Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.

Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.

Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.

Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes. Dana.

Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.

An instrument for making of angular measurements.

Same as Holometabolic.

Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Having the nasal bones contiguous.