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Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria.

False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. Forsyth.

Same as Pseudobranchia.

A rudimentary branchia, or gill. -- Pseu`do*bran"chi*al, a.

That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.

Same as Pseudocoelia.

The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle. B. G. Wilder.

A false opinion or doctrine. "To maintain the atheistical pseudodox which judgeth evil good, and darkness light." T. Adams.

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

False writing; forgery.

One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

One who utters falsehoods; a liar.

Falsehood of speech. Arbuthnot.

A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.

The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.

Not having the true form. Pseudomorphous crystal, one which has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.