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ng the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

Same as Syncarp.

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

See under T.

A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, the front one somewhat elevated.

A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

Composed of four carpels.

A sulphocarbonate.

Same as Sulphocarbonic.

A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.

An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more passengers.

Rough-fruited. Gray.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.

See under Cyanuric.

A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy. [Written also trochar.]

A motor car to which the current is conveyed by means of a trolley.

One of the Tunicata.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.

To degrade from the cardinalship.