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Ligneous. [R.] Evelyn.

The European garfish.

Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.

Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained indirectly from benzene, and isometric with, and resembling, dextrose.

Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

A short, thick nose; a snubnose. -- Pug"-nosed`, a. Pug-nose eel (Zoöl.), a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.

A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.

Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.

A disaccharide present in glycosides. Prepared from rutin by hydrolysis with rhamnodiastase. 6-O-a-L-rhamnosyl-D-glucose; C12H22O10.

A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.

Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

The common sand shark. See under Snad.

Made of fine wheat. [Obs.] Bailey.

Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub- nosed eel. Snub-nosed cachalot (Zoöl.), the pygmy sperm whale.

Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.

Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.

A snub nose. [Prov. Eng.]