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Compositæ; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.

A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.

d States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

Having ten sides.

A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, decaedron.]

tress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.

A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage.

A solid having twelve faces.

See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.

Having nine sides.

A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.

The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.

A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides. Raymond.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

A hydration of iolite.

Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. -- n.

A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. W. M. Thomson.