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Of or pertaining to baryta.

A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.

Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.

The metal barium. See Barium. [R.]

Relating to the destruction of life.

A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

Of a short form.

See Cryptogamia.

An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia.

A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

A talebearer. [R.] Shak.

Relating to, or causing, catalysis. "The catalytic power is ill understood." Ure. Catalytic force, that form of chemical energy formerly supposed to determine catalysis.

Am alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts, It is a coloriess crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.

ng, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.

A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

See Protoplasm.