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According to the practice of homeopathy. [Also homoepathically.]

A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also homoepathist.]

ded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also homoepathy.]

rary resistance to change from a condition previously invuced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.

merican ipecac, and bowman's root. Gray. -- Indian pink. (Bot.) (a) The Cypress vine (Ipomoea Quamoclit); -- so called in the West Indies. (b) See China pink, under China. -- Indian pipe (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb (Monotropa uniflora), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nod…

ilarity of form between substances of unlike composition, which is more properly called homoeomorphism.

The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa. False jalap,…

order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.

See Moebles. [Obs.]

See Moebles. [Obs.]

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.

A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

tiple conjugation (Biol.), a coalescence of many cells (as where an indefinite number of amoeboid cells flow together into a single mass) from which conjugation proper and even fertilization may have been evolved. -- Multiple fruits. (Bot.) See Collective fruit, under Collective. -- Multiple star (Astron.), several s…

A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.

ata); -- called also tomato worm. See Illust. under Tomato. -- Seaside potato (Bot.), Ipomoea Pes-Capræ, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies] -- Sweet potato (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ipomoea Balatas) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish ta…

Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.

Changeable in form; resembling a Proteus, or an amoeba.

A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.

branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.