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s amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.

range grass (Bot.), an inconspicuous annual American plant (Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers. -- Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtained from orange rind, and distinct from neroli oil, which is obtained from the flowers. -- Orange pekoe, a kind of black tea. -- Orange pippi…

A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.

ed especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees. Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Or…

Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.

The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree.

con sheep, under Ancon. -- Otter shell (Zoöl.), very large bivalve mollusk (Schizothærus Nuttallii) found on the northwest coast of America. It is excellent food, and is extensively used by the Indians. -- Sea otter. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.

ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver. Ure.

A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

swift (Zoöl.), a small swift (Cypselus Btassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm. -- Palm toddy. Same as Palm wine. -- Palm weevil (Zoöl.), any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larvæ…

A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

Having flat sides or surfaces; as, a sixpaned nut.

The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.

Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.

t African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.

e genus Astrapia, having dark velvety plumage with brilliant metallic tints. -- Paradise nut (Bot.), the sapucaia nut. See Sapucaia nut. [Local, U. S.] -- Paradise whidah bird. (Zoöl.) See Whidah.