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A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.

A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.

False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.

A false embryo.

Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.

Inscribed with a false name. Cudworth.

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids. Pseudhæmal fluid, the circulatory fluid, or blood, of annelids, analogous to the blood of vertebrates. It is often red, but is sometimes green or colorless. -- Pseudhæmal vessels, the blood vessels of annelids.

A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo- clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.

An aërial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.

The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo- china), found in America.

One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid.

A pseudo-dipteral temple.

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).

Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.

Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.

Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.

A pseudo-peripteral temple. Oxf. Gloss.