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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…

Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.

e; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Archæan, and Eozoic.

ns; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]

he power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

Divided into two lobes or segments.

ing two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

bs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.

A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.

The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.

The lobe or lap of the ear.

p of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

See Projection. -- Plane chart, a representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topogra…

s applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids. The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. Locke.