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A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.

of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.

in in the buttock, back of the thing, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoininhg. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.

Any branch or departament of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]

Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.

A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

A stunted shrub, bush, or branch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

To scranch; to crunch. Dickens.

A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.

Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.

Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.

A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.

Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia.

Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.

Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.

A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides.

A nudibranch mollusk.