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One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.

An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens of water from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean.

That part of a fungus which is covered with the hymenium.

Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv.

Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.

A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.

From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.

antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oöphore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

Ovariotomy.

To exceed in lewdness.

Phosphorescent. [Obs.]

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.

A phosphorescent substance.

(Zoöl.) A light-emitting organ; specif., one of the luminous spots on certain marine (mostly deep-sea) fishes.

Plethoric. [Obs.] Johnson.

One of the Pneumonophora.