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Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.

by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

e the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime. The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. Southey.

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

e vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull. Ethmovomerine plate (Anat.), a cartilaginous plate beneath the front of the fetal brain which the ethmoid region of the skull is developed.

xceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, em…

A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.

lating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.

Arising or growing from without; exogenous.

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.] This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.

e of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.

A monotonous refrain. [Obs.] Holland.

A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.

lse croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. -- False door or window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry. -- False fire…

our devices still are overthrown. Shak. The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. Pope.

Significant of fate; ominous. The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow. -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.