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A divisiom of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.

atory foods. (Physiol.) See 2d Note under Food, n., 1. -- Respiratory tree (Zoöl.), the branched internal gill of certain holothurians.

is and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.…

of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.

To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

A bough or branch; a twig. [Obs.] As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.

A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capræa) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.

The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment…

A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

by its fall. Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]

One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag.

A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.

-- Rush broom, an Australian leguminous plant (Viminaria denudata), having long, slender branches. Also, the Spanish broom. See under Candle. -- Rush grass, any grass of the genus Vilfa, grasses with wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets. -- Rush toad (Zoöl.), the natterjack. -- Scouring rush (Bot.) Same as Dutch ru…

A branch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Pellibranchiata.

Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.…

A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [U.S.]

weet scabious (a) Mourning bride. (b) A daisylike plant (Erigeron annuus) having a stout branching stem.