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h has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of t…

Any animal with heterodont dentition.

e ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.

ich serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. Martyn.

The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.

ing so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. [Obs.] Callander.

A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. Milton.

, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll.

One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.

That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.

ural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.

An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. Dryden. The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58.

which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

rtaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.

thod of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.

nt from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

Maintaining a uniform temperature; hæmatothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in tempe…