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or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.

th hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

a oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

heory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as…

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

hers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

mals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.]

na of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perfprated metal, or the like.

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia.

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

s rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.